This is rather unfortunate, as the card is a great boss monster for the Blue-Eyes White Dragon archetype, a deck that has recently returned to the meta
Yes, many Japanese Pokemon cards are highly valuable
It can also retrieve Forests, and puts your land into play untapped, but its well below any other entry being discussed in this post when it comes to efficiency a critical metric when measuring mana ramp
The art on the card is by Atsuko Nishida the graphic artist who designed a number of popular Pokemon, including Pikachu
I am looking forward to the next episodes on the competitive meta
On the journey back from Indianapolis, I found myself constructing future decks across different pairs of differing ink colours using the games polished companion app, excited to dig through and see how different cards might combine into a ruthlessly efficient lore-gathering machine