as of early 2026, 1,025 Pokmon species have been introduced
Heres a story from personal experience: I once tried to crossover a BGS 8 Jordan Fleer Rookie Card (without cracking it out, it went in its existing BGS slab as pictured below) to a PSA 8 min
What do you think of the new set and the precons overall
You're essentially meant to be getting a card's worth of value from the effect, while also improving a less impressive creature
The major characters like the Fellowship of the Ring, their closest allies, and the major villains like Sauron all get multiple mechanically unique cards to represent them during different parts of their long journeys
Since it's a mana cheap instant, you can do this in response to targeted or sweeping removal to get cards, as a sacrifice or it can send something to your graveyard about to get exiled by Swords to Plowshares, or to get value out of a chump blocker about to die anyway