Its got a great pair of Attacks including the excellent Hydro Lander, which costs just one Fighting Energy to use, yet does 160 HP of Damage and allows you to grab up to three Fighting Energy cards from your discard pile, then add them to your Benched Pokemon in any way you like
For a 3-mana investment you can get two of something, whether its a utility creature, a game-ending threat or simply doubling up on interaction
Tiered A big appeal to tiered spells is their ability to trigger 4+ payoffs
There are a lot of fun spells that you can run with Edgin as your commander, cards like Wild-Magic Sorcerer which give the first spell you cast from exile cascade, cycling through your library until you find a spell that costs less than the initial spell.
That Pokmon pack you bought from Walmart could be hiding a holy grail
While the upside of picking up a Town and gaining two life isnt huge, in a format dominated by Prowess, any life buffer is nice