The key reason why counterfeit cards themselves would be considered illegal is because it breaks many of the rules of fan-art: its being sold to fool people into thinking theyre authentic cards it almost always uses authentic art assets in their bootlegsand no, adding three extra zeros to the HP and attacks wont change that it attempts to interfere with Nintendos ability to sell cards (as in, people buy the cheaper bootleg and NOT authentic packs) the low quality of these knock-off cards may in turn get random people to think ALL official Pokmon TCG cards look just as bad Remember, most companies look the other way when it comes to fan art because fans dont operate at such a huge level to actually interfere with legitimate business operations
The body is aggressive for its cost, and the ability fits neatly into blight-focused decks that already want counters in play
This set packs quite a punch with one of the best EX cards ever printed in Seismitoad EX being featured in this set
In practice the refined build of this deck is going to have a handful of less exciting but wildly more powerful cube mainstays
Mjlnir, Hammer of Thor FromTheShire: I mentioned it in our mechanics article, but a creature only having to be a non-Villain in red or white seems like it really overlooks some things flavor wise
Enough decks to make reading the article worthwhile