Your foes have plenty of time to find a board wipe and save it until you've used chapter four
Jenova, Ancient Calamity From the Final Fantasy franchise, Jenova, Ancient Calamity is a legendary alien that can boost your other creatures by putting +1/+1 counters on them at the start of your combat
Some versions of these decks rely on Deoxys EX (EX) and a higher focus on Plasma attackers for more damage
The pull rates for Gold Star cards were punishing even by the standards of modern ultra-rare chase cards: roughly one Gold Star per every two booster boxes, a rate that means the vast majority of collectors who opened product from these sets never pulled a single Gold Star card across their entire collecting career
Four toughness is incredibly relevant because it allows this to survive Lightning Bolt and much other cheap interaction, and the threat to adapt it later makes it relevant when you have some extra mana
This is especially important for valuable or sentimental cards that you want to keep in pristine condition