Well, there are three significant bonuses to having the initiative: First, whenever a player takes the initiative, they venture into Undercity (Undercity is a new dungeon card
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The fact that the Munitions tokens have a death trigger means that players have to find a way to sacrifice or destroy those tokens, which makes for a fun build-around card
Then exiling an artifact can come in clutch (looking at you The One Ring), and of course that board wipe at the end could possibly change the face of the game
Both Blastoise and Venusaur are incredible Pokemon that deserve better, but at least they get to benefit from the ever-burning flame of Charizard
One way to gain virtual card advantage is to blank one or more of your opponent's cardsturn them into dead cards