Simply put, the cardboard problem is where you are running out of cards, not in hand, but in your deck, and that is what is deciding the game
The combat step should be used to make our damage greater so that we can get to higher mana value spells, but there are a multitude of spells that can get us to three or four mana value spells easy, so we will be adding a few of those
If you are the monarch on your upkeep, you get all the counters as long as they already have some on your creatures
Theres even fringe cases where you can use this to play politics or trigger some impactful ability by reanimating opposing cards although your opponent will still get to keep them
The card was likely used to pitch the Pokmon TGC to retailers or internal stakeholders before the official release
Every SAR card is covered with an additional layer of glitter foil