Shiny Pikachu is always a collector magnet, and the SV4a version benefits from being the only shiny Pikachu in the Scarlet & Violet era
By discarding any number of Machine-Type monsters, the player could inflict direct damage to the opponent, equal to the amount of cards discarded times 500
In addition, the original three members ("Yubel", "Yubel - Terror Incarnate", and "Yubel - The Ultimate Nightmare"), as well as "Yubel - The Loving Defender Forever", each have effects that damage the opponent based on the monster it battles
All cards in Digimon World 1 Trading Card Games (or TCGs for short) were the hit in the late '90s and early 2000s, and as the Digimon franchise already had a physical card game at the time, it was only logical to include a similar product into Digimon World
That was the case for every SV set so far, so thank God weve finally got something that bucks that trend
A better way of thinking about this is perhaps to say that it scales well with dead cards as that communicates better how to use it to your advantage