After all, if a set has a Charizard in it (one of the most valuable Pokemon cards in general), you dont exactly need a backup Pokemon to sell packs
Feel and relief (tactile characteristics) of the card, especially elevations and cavities on the surface on both sides
As a Vorthos-first deck-builder, its an eternal struggle between this will work really well in this deck and this makes no sense to have behind this General. We see the same thing here
Once Deadeye Navigator arrives, it costs but two mana to blink your Navigator or the creature it's bonded with, sloughing off targeted removal, combat damage, or anything else that threatens them
As for its trigger that it will sacrifice itself if there are no creatures on the battlefield, the nature of indestructible creatures now largely offsets that problem