WardPay 7 life is strong, but paying 7 mana for a creature without ETB is harsh for 1v1 formats
Data from NPD, and relayed by The Pokmon Company, states that trading 100 million was spent on the Pokmon Trading Card Game last year, which gave the firm a 82% share of the market (total sales of strategic trading cards sat at 122 million for Europe)
Included in packs of bubblegum, the Pokmon Topsun cards were some of the earliest collectibles available for the Pokmon franchise (the Pokmon TCG wasnt released until 1996 in Japan), so they are very valuable to collectors
Japanese Pokmon Cards: How to Source Directly from Japan Japanese Pokmon TCG sets are not just translations of English sets
On the frost side you get a copy for the same mana and ability, save that it keeps its Spirit type, which is unusual since most Clones have the Shapeshifter type