For starters, you gain one lore whenever its exerted, and on top of that, its an Evasive card, meaning few others are able to actually challenge it, which is crucial when it comes to climbing the ladder to twenty lore
Japanese cards are often cheaper within Japan, but overseas prices can rise because of shipping costs, import fees, reseller markups, and regional demand
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People are still obsessed with building their decks and the fixation has become even stronger now that they are worth a lot of money
The difficulty with raw cards lies in the assessment of the condition of the card (i.e., how good of shape it is in) as that can be a fairly subjective assessment
Example: Poised Practitioner or Krotiq Nestguard