It was not uncommon to pair up the Mystique or another Matrox card with a 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics 3D-only board because the Voodoo cards were the fastest and most well-supported 3D accelerators at the time. Detractors, however, referred to the card as the "Matrox Mystake".
It was common to pair a Matrox graphics card with a 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics card for gaming in the era because the Voodoo cards were the fastest and most widely supported 3D accelerators available. Some people criticized the Matrox card as "Matrox Mystake".