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Having Food grant life seemed like slam-dunk flavor, and it was a resource that every deck could use

Vintage kept its restricted list, because some people wanted to play with powerful cards (and also because Type 1.5, aka legacy had started to take root, which, at the time, was just vintage with the restricted list renamed "banned list"), but in standard, you already couldn't play with all your cards, so there really wasn't any good reason to keep a restricted list

You can only include one Radiant Pokmon in your deck, and they are extremely powerful cards

However, it is not a complete solution to the duplicate problem, as players will continue to collect more copies of existing cards during play and as new sets are introduced in the future