As a connecting piece between the submerged Froakie and the airborne Mega Greninja ex, it has a natural energy to it and it carries that sense of momentum both visually and in terms of collector demand
For protection we've got a ton of ways to protect our creatures from dying with umbras like Hyena Umbra, indestructible with Timely Ward, hexproof with Swiftfoot Boots
Curve this into a pair of 1/1 pests and you have done a good amount of stalling and gained a pile of life
These are the cards we must cut from the list to make our deck legal as of April 5th: 1 Mew 4 Battle VIP PASS 1 Level Ball We still might want to cut some other cards, like Choice Belt [Brilliant Stars] because we lose a lot of Pokmon V in the format, but Ill leave those be for this exercise
Furthermore, the set bears a unique set symbol, a detailed palm tree, and lacks traditional rarity symbols like circles or stars because the distribution was fixed