Despite being rarer than Special Illustration Rare cards, they tend to not fair as well as a truly top chase SIR
Taking out two 6-cost or less Characters with one card puts you ahead on resources and you wont have to worry about a full-out aggro turn on the opponents upcoming attack
While marginally better than Arcane Strategist, its a pretty narrow margin
However, this will change on 18 July 2025 with the international release of Black Bolt [BLK] and White Flare [WHT]the first-ever non-Japanese dual set in the history of the Pokmon TCG
- and each one will contain one of five different toys
For their part, Wizards appears to recognize this: Theres much more work to be done as we continue to make our games, communities, and company more inclusive, they said