This latter view was primarily held by those more involved with the ONE PIECE Card Games gameplay rather than collectability because they were concerned about whether a promotional card with limited distribution would end up being gameplay-viable
Half a point up or down on your grading can make thousands, tens of thousands, or in a few cases over a million dollars' worth of difference to the price
We can see this in previews of cards like Garland/Chaos from the first Final Fantasy game, Cecil from Final Fantasy 4, and Sin from Final Fantasy X
you wont be starting with any of the top tier 1-4 * monsters (who can be summoned without any general restrictions) like many of the Duelists will, putting you on the backfoot from the start, and theres no indication as to which boosters contain what cards (outside of its signature card, i.e Dark Magician or Red-Eyes Black Dragon) which could help with building towards a particular deck
As your opponent's strong cards will be unprepared to attack at the start of a match, your Rotom won't go down that easily
Donphan ex takes 20 additional damage from Grass-type attacks