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Nintendo Life reports that one of 20 Snap Magikarp cards was recently sold at a Japanese auction for 5 million yen, or roughly $136,000

and 2) some Number cards have decent enough effects on their own in retrospect that would've made the archetype-wide protection incredibly unbalanced

That goes FABULOUSLY with ToyAgumon's support effect

ST10-12 R Digimon Lv.5 LadyDevimon Color Purple Cost 6 DP 6000 Digivolve Cost 1 PurpleYellow 3 from Lv.4 Form Ultimate Attribute Virus Type Fallen Angel Card Text 1 [Effect] [When Digivolving] You may trash 1 card in your hand to reveal the top 3 cards of your deck

The problem is that a 2/2 (even a 2/2 with flying) can be outclassed fairly quickly, so delaying Vexing Gull trades its early game relevance (pecking in for damage) for mid-game value (when you might be behind in the race or not be able to attack with Vexing Gull)