It is the only burn spell you ever see in aggressive red decks that doesn't go face
We wanted the back to be a mage-ring artifact, and we wanted it to be an uncommon blue card
starting from inflation adjusted msrp back in 1996 or 1999 in the west (?) to your latest available data, focusing only on the sets from wizards of the cost (up until the e-reader era iirc), would you be able to draft a primitive average price evolution of this vintage pokemon tcg category year by year, displaying the booms and busts (or even bubbles) to the best of your ability, from any market analysis or user data collation? I then asked it to graph its response which is the image you see
Before drawing cards, try to eliminate as many cards and stacks as possible using the resources already on the table
Add Buyback to a powerful effect, and keep the Buyback cost too low, and you enter into a stalled-out game that no one can enjoy
The TCG version also introduces the "SPYRAL", "SPYRAL GEAR", "Subterror", and "Subterror Behemoth" archetypes