It does the new player experience well
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In a format where you can play mana accelerators like Lotus Petal, Jeweled Lotus, Dark Ritual, Blood Pet, a host of tutors, and cards to load up your graveyard like Entomb, it can become laughably easy to overcome that barrier throughout the course of normal gameplay or while youre comboing off
#9 Why wouldn't they make this a card
You'll want to surround it with other token-making coin-flip cards like Molten Rebirth and Mirror March in this build
For that reason (and for the fact that its also easier to grade), it will never have the appeal of Base/Jungle/Fossil (or the Neo sets), but it certainly has its place in Pokemon history, if not for its uniqueness, then based on its incredible artwork alone