For actual discard this card is one of the weaker effects on the list but the combined package is so potent and versatile you just don't care
While putting cards in the Lost Zone literally means sacrificing cards that you will never use again in a match, some Pokmon cards can benefit from it, like this Cramorant that can attack for free as long as you have four or more cards in the Lost Zone: Another example of Lost Zone-hungry cards is this Giratina VSTAR that one-shots anyone with its VSTAR Power, Star Requiem: Will the Lost Zone be in Standard
When Magics designers faced the problem of bringing order to countless cards, they used templated text: they described similar game rules with consistent wording imposed by fill-in-the-blank templates
Using Vigilance, Menace, and Lifelink all at one time is either going to end a game or put you back into a more winnable situation
A lot of people remember HGSS in particular thanks to the 2-part Legends cards considered the ancestors of today's V-Union
Both matter when it comes to grading
