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I love the flavor of experience counters, but I understand why Wizards of the Coast has been reticent to print too many more

Rampant Growth

The more equipment you attach to it, the more +1/+1 counters you place on it whenever it attacks

They will generally represent the most immediate impact your planeswalker will represent on board

But strangely enough, this is probably the only expensive battle card that matches the high investment of the high transformed effect that it provides (others either being straight up bad, or just better than its base defense counters)

The Pokmon TCG Holiday Calendar 2025 swaps out candy for Pokmon cards, and honestly, that's all you need to say to sell me on the idea