However, Dark Hole forced players to destroy their own Monsters (or play it on an empty field), and Lightning Vortex required a player to discard a card in their hand to activate it, making Raigeki the easy include over both when it was finally brought back to the game
Because it is part of this sought after set, its rarity is further increased, as are all Skyridge holographic cards
If you do manage to summon Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon, which is pretty doable through Rank-Up Magic cards on Raidraptor Xyz monsters, your opponent will have very few options to deal with the winged monstrosity of Ultimate Falcon
Gagaga Shield is a substitute and can protect a Safe Zoned monster from destruction by Safe Zone
Incidentally, so does Gongenzaka
Credit to Impendio for pointing out the oversight