For a game that elevates the act of collecting to a shared mission in pursuit of the rarest, most unique monsters, the move into trading cards was an obvious next step, and it paid off
Caller of the ClawCaller of the Claw Ive got a soft spot for this 2/2 Elf since I pulled it multiple times while cracking packs of 2003s Legions back in the day
19971998 The famous Pikachu Illustrator trophy card is awarded through CoroCoro illustration contests (one of the rarest Pokemon cards ever)
Add new, high-profile cards into the mix, and you can already imagine fans scrambling to get said cardsespecially once there are inevitable special V-Union iterationsand gray market resellers scrambling to get them before the fans can, hoping to resell them at higher prices
This lets players cast spells from their graveyard, effectively allowing them to double dip
More notably, it does slow down Labrynth, Snake-Eye (Flamberge and Diabell), and Rescue-Ace