The card's first move is Ice Wing which deals 40 damage and needs one Water Energy and one Colorless Energy to use
There are a few restrictions in place to prevent players from abusing this system, but trading is still very helpful if you want to complete your collection or get a duplicate of a card for a new deck
While there are ways to play around his effect, and he does not offer immediate gains in card advantage, he can contribute to a +1 in advantage over time
Rituals are bad in a lot of situations because they require the player to spend multiple cards to summon one card
The second (and more dangerous) way you can be disrupted is if your resources run too low, and your hand and deck combined have 6 or fewer cards in them, causing you to deck out
This allows you to pendulum summon just about any monster in the game, only limited by the number on your other scale