Ultimately, I compare this deck with the other WUBRG that has released this year, and in doing so, it became much clearer where the two stack up against each other and the rest of this list, and Turtle Power falls into the lower half as a result
And, while were on the subject of ludo-narrative dissonance,* what the entire library and summoned creatures are** is a bit hazy and unintuitive, but a bit of thematic weakness isnt a bad thing if the gameplay and flavor fit well
However, it does have a number of Planeswalker-matters cards, such as Deification making a Planeswalker effectively indestructible, or Spark Rupture turning them into creatures
Could the Japanese market be following the English market here
Also, other language pokemon cards existed in the mid 2000s, and they all had the Nintendo card design