If you anticipate playing against any sort of Planeswalker deck, I would highly recommend including a copy of this card in your deck(s) with black in them
But why do you care
Fortunately, an updated version printed in Journey into Nyx fixes this flaw, but thats still two decades away The 00s: Gratuitous Violence We got our next enchantment in October 2002 in the form of Gratuitous Violence, first printed in Onslaught
Pact of the Serpent Pact of the Serpent only works in typal decks, but its a pretty flexible card: While youll often draw a bunch of cards, you can reasonably expect to use it as a burn spell to finish off an opponent, especially with a creature type like elves or goblins that thrive on token production
It has happened before that they have run out and people end up received a regular Happy Meal toy
Sure, your designers had no idea what Commander was when they made you, and you did have your time in the limelight in Standard, but it's just so difficult not to wonder what would have happened if you, like your opposing cousinopposing cousin, had ended up with the "each opponent" wording instead of "target player"