since ninjutsu won't count as your only spell for the turn
My rule of thumb: 4 cards that hose the field's best deck, 4 cards that help your worst matchup, 3 cards that improve your mirror, and 4 flex slots based on the metagame you expect
The 1/1 token also has a lot of practical applications, most of which I touched on with Rally the Hornburg, but most importantly, it puts something on the battlefield while you draw cards
Sacrifice payoffs reward you for all that sacrificing
2 Before Base Set Charizard: Celebrations was announced, I wrote a piece for Bleeding Cool urging the Pokmon TCG not to make the 25th Anniversary set a Base Set reimagining like XY Evolutions was
As the mascot of the entire franchise, plenty of Pikachu cards end up being worth hundreds of dollars, with the hyper-rare ones often reaching thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars