For Pokmon cards, the growth is as much about scarcity as it is about demand
The bolster ability triggers off any of your dragons attacking, so you can stack up counters fast, even if they dont always go where you want them to
The Sunmare gets to make horse buddies practically every turn, so paying a single mana to gain five life each turn seems like a pretty solid way to stave off any aggro players in your group
Japanese Pokemon cards carry a lower counterfeit risk compared to English-language cards for three reasons: Print complexity : Japanese text (kanji, katakana, hiragana) is significantly harder to replicate accurately than English text
Even though we lose those tokens at the end of the turn, in a pseudo-Splinter Twin fashion, Stormsplitter has haste, so we can attack that turn with all those tokens
And technically you can do less than any of the above as you don't have to spend all five paws