Each card showcases various Pokemon species, with their unique abilities and characteristics
Kindred cards also benefit abilities that care about the number of card types on individual cards, like how Rendmaw, Creaking Nest triggers when you play cards with multiple types
5 Pongify And Rapid Hybridization Ape-ification Pongify and Rapid Hybridization are functionally the same card, and some of the only mono-blue cards in Magic history that use the text "destroy target creature." While it's perfectly within blue's wheelhouse to remove a creature and replace it with something else, destroying a creature is a color pie break for blue
Wizards of the Coast carefully tiptoe around mentioning the books by name, but the Valleys portrayal of peaceful animals (all of them prey creatures such as mice, toads and hares) threatened by imperious predators talks plenty loud enough
Smudging: Smudging is usually a minor misprint where the ink that has been laid down on the card gets a little smeared
In reality, ramp is powerful enough now that this probably isn't scarier than a lot of the big ramp decks, so I think it will be fun to see what people come up with for this little goober