Even so, surveilling cards to your Graveyard will not just improve your draws and hands but also enables GY strategies and synergies such as Delve threats, Arclight Phoenix and others
The trading card game first released several months after the games debuted in Japan, but the development team clearly saw the franchise's potential to expand even at this early stage
Theres always a premium to pay for being the first to have access to a new card
Whether that continues depends on whether Pokemon collecting maintains its current cultural relevance but Base Set has survived every downturn since 2001
But some of these cards, no matter their rarity, tend to escape from what is considered meta, and their utility is questionable at best, and null at worst
You don't need life points until you are about to die, unless you feel the urge to pay them to do something silly like draw extra cards