By using Sceptile, R-Gon was able to turn potentially bad matchups such as Absolutions (which won Worlds and US Nationals in 2007) and Banette into favorable affairs
While the number of cards produced for each winner of the contest is unknown, PWCC estimates that between 13 to 100 copies of each winning design exist - making them among the rarest Pokmon cards ever made
While not strictly ramp, it thins your deck and is much more likely to trigger when you have multiple opponents
This allowed players to draft Rush of Knowledge quite highly, and splash it into many decks that otherwise wouldn't have had blue
Clearly, the Lorcana meta looks very, very different after both rotation and the latest Whispers in the Well set
Here are a few examples: Darklord Zerato reminds me of an ugly Rob Liefeld character, with too many muscles, too many impractical spike bracelets, just all edge no substance