Consequently, once the Charbelcher goes off, your opponent is hit for damage equal to the number of cards remaining in your library (usually over 50 by the time the combo goes off), as you won't ever hit a land and reveal every card in your deck
This is affected by things such as the popularity of the Pokmon or character on the card, the playability of the card and also the collectability of the card
At this point, they realized that they needed to keep their cards value high or people wouldnt collect them at all
Ivysaur Base Set PSA 9 Professionally graded collectible card
In the same way Condemn is only good in a control deck most creature only burn spells are the red equivalent
I know today we have Lysandre, Max Potion, and other cards that seem superior to these older, clunky cards, but things were much different back then, and removing 8 damage counters from your Pokmon was worth giving your opponent a Prize card over (just look at Regigigas LV