The spike in the popularity of Pokemon cards in 2020, driven by a combination of millennial nostalgia, pandemic boredom, and influencer market pumping, turned the Pokemon TCG into a high-value commodity
He was taking his time getting there, as he was busy admiring the flora that grew on the island
Theres a lot of different sources and determining anythins value is a lesson in capitalism Im not willing to dive into
Oh yeah, one last thing: for the rest of the article, rather than calling the decks by their proper names, we'll be going with their colors which are shorter and easier to type (as a refersher, Esper is Subjective Reality headed by Aminatou, the Fateshifter, Bant is Adaptive Enchantment headed by Estrid, the Masked, Jund is Nature's Vengeance with Lord Windgrace and Izzet is Exquisite Invention with Saheeli, the Gifted as the facecard)
At the end of your turn, if you have the initiative, you can place a +1/+1 counter on it