And as history has shown, picking too small a number can backfire
Smokestack Smokestack can be an absolutely malicious stax card, but lets just assume its player threw it in a random deck
In most contexts or formats, I would rather work slightly harder or meet some deckbuilding requirement to see a better per-card return
That makes this card one of very few Nidoking cards that isn't either Fighting, Darkness or Psychic and even when this card got reprinted in XY Evolutions, it became a Psychic-type to fit with the modern Poison-type Pokemon, making this original print even more special
While its not a time I care to commemorate much, I do have to point to a watershed moment in Magic history that came in 2020: the printing of cards based on other intellectual properties, in this case Entertainment Ones The Walking Dead
Well, for one, if you are a TCG (trading card game) player, the gold cards are usually much stronger than normal cards