Beyond being incredibly talented, Sydney is a staple of the Final Fantasy art community and designed these products with the fandom in mind
I approach this as a collector first and foremost
One major downside of the Populate mechanic is that you need a token to make it work
Acid-Spewer Dragon Ancient Brass Dragon Black Dragon Bone Devourer Bone Dragon Boneyard Scourge Brainstealer Dragon Catacomb Dragon Deathbringer Regent Ebon Dragon Ebondeath, Dracolich Feral Deathgorger Grendel, Spawn of Knull Hoarding Broodlord Junji, the Midnight Sky Kokusho, the Evening Star Malevolent Witchkite Noxious Dragon Purging Stormbrood Scavenger Regent Scourge of Nel Toth Shinryu, Transcendent Rival Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon Topaz Dragon Yiazmat, Ultimate Mark
On average, Im left with 4.5 prizes when losing matches, with a standard deviation of 1.9, suggesting that there are numerous instances where I lose without claiming any prizes (Figure 4)
Do that, and you're much less likely to waste your money on worthless pieces of cardboard