If this card is sent to the GY as material for the Link Summon of a WATER monster: You can excavate the top 3 cards of your Deck, and if you do, you can add 1 excavated "Marincess" card to your hand, also shuffle the rest into your Deck
So a lot more value engines, reasonably priced cards and just generally making things cheaper than they were in the modest era of 2004 Some trivia about the names and cards: Read the Air and A Thousand Years Early are both trying to invoke common Japanese idioms The cost reductions on Rupture the Blood and A Thousand Years Early are both meant to be ways to make the total spells you splice cheaper Tanuki is its own creature type because it should be
Why not all three, making a perfect storm of value, either if you find this card in a pack or purchase it on its own
Amazing Rare Raikou The Amazing Rare Raikou doesn't get much love or mention in the set, but it is certainly one of the cooler looking cards in Vivid Voltage
Pokemon Red & Blue were well received when they launched back in 1998 in the United States
Later cards with holofoil stamp etc