Its not card advantage
As of February 2019, just 20 years after our comparison year, a bit of simple addition involving the PSA Population Report reveals the following statistics: BASEBALL CARDS ISSUED IN 1999 Number of Sets Documented by PSA - 474 Total Items (Individual Cards) Graded - 161,575 POKMON CARDS ISSUED IN 1999 Number of Sets Documented by PSA - 45 Total Items (Individual Cards) Graded - 283,031 As mentioned earlier, Browning's interest in Pokmon came along with the advent of the TCG and grew right along with its popularity
While Wheel of Fortune might be out of budget, there are a bunch of great alternatives that cost a lot less
In the case of Pokmon, new sets follow the most recent video games, but feature their own background stories, as Gamespot reports in a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the cards get made
It states that whenever it mutates, its controller may cast a noncreature spell with a mana value of three or less from their graveyard without paying its mana cost
With only one lore value and +1 resist, there are just too many other, better cards people will choose over it