Between the card's two abilities, Meren synergizes in incredible fashion with sacrifice outlets and Aristocrats synergies that can provide experience counters as well as self-milling effects that can provide a Meren player with additional options of which cards they'd like to return to play.
They are high cost yet they fail to do what you want from them reliably
This forced rarity is of course making resale prices even more crazy than theyve been at any point during the last 18 months of the TCGs destructive explosion
While this design choice doesn't strictly make the card better or worse, the dead look in Pikachu's eyes is mildly off-putting, especially the more you compare each version
Now, once you play your Giant Growth (and target your goblin), it will get the +3/+3 boost, becoming a 5/5 until the end of the turn, and no longer die to Defeat because its power is now over two
The treated surface is wear - and scratch - resistant with good anti - slip properties, keeping cards stable
