There might be enough pieces to try a tribal Wolf / Werewolf deck for an FNM event, but the tribe is a long way off from being a real contender in Modern
There has been a mixed reaction to the monochromatic art style, with some expressing their need to acquire these cards and others unimpressed with the aesthetic effort put into them
That's the entire collecting thesis: mass nostalgia, genuine scarcity of high-grade surviving copies, and artwork that people recognize even if they haven't touched a Pokemon card in 20 years
Cards that just hard counter a spell that targets the creature, like Kira, Great Glass-Spinner, definitely exist but theyre much less common
Unlike the other Aragorns, this one does not have any evergreen abilities such as vigilance or any triggered abilities to gain those evergreen effects
Still, none of that is the reason Venusaur is so popular