Full art cards, a type of card where the artwork takes up the whole card, allow these illustrators to make the most of their creative abilities, giving them more space to work with The use of color, the composition of the Pokmon, and the background of the illustration all help to make a card stand out from the rest, culminating in a new interpretation of the Pokmon
There's no advantage to building over the deck size minimum strategically in magic (there are in some other games) that offsets the downside to consistency of even one extra card
Creating additional combats is incredibly powerful but needing to Crew one with Baltheir and Fran, and pay three mana, is a lot of requirements for Standard
The best way to avoid this temptation is to have a plan before you buy stuff
The two loyalty on this card just might be the only reason it isnt good
The connive effect happens before Raise so it's possible to connive, discard a creature card, and then retrieve it