Most individual Japanese Pokmon cards may be worth more than their English counterparts, but multiple factors complicate the comparison
Yep, way, WAY too many flavor wins
It just feels so bad to fire off card draw and have someone flash this in, much like when you tutor and someone sneaks in an Opposition Agent
In Saga draft, it was a neat trick with Horseshoe Crab, creating what was known as "the Machine Gun." In Odyssey Block, it was said that if you didn't have at least one Psionic Gift in your white-blue deck, you didn't have a good white-blue deck
Anafenza, the Foremost handles those while fueling +1/+1 counter strategies, although this Abzan soldier can be slow since it does nothing about creatures binned before it comes into play
Sabrina is a key card for most decks and Erika is vital in Leaf-themed decks with Exeggutor EX and Venusaur