Getting to go again by making it Monstrous is a great mana sink, especially when youre anticipating a board wipe and want to keep some cards in hand
This ones a very nice pickup if youre either into collecting Japanese cards or a newbie looking to net your first Japanese Lightning deck without custom building via booster boxes
The illustration by Mitsuhiro Arita, the same artist who painted the original Base Set Charizard over two decades ago, depicts Charizard in a nostalgic, almost painterly style that immediately resonated with collectors who grew up with the original artwork
The combination of Cragalanche and Single Strike Crush is ridiculously powerful, and the high HP pool helped significantly, too
Unlike Daze it never becomes close to a dead card due to the inbuilt cycling so even if you are Remanding a Lotus Petal you are not that behind as a result
Other roleplayers in that deck were Elvish Warmaster and Gala Greeters for a very token-focused variant on Elves