first edition pokemon energy cards card set Amazon.com: Pokémon 1st/2nd Generation from 1999! Pack of 50 All cards will be carefully packed for safe transit 1999 Nintendo Pokemon Game Supr.Energy

It could be much smaller (or not there at all)

Words cannot describe how utterly meaningless this card is

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Also, once the ability is on the stack, even if the creature with the mechanic is removed from the battlefield or combat one way or another, the smaller creature will still get the +1/+1 counter as long as its power is still less than the Mentor creatures was as it last existed in combat

These strong cards are still worth having, but theyre not as meta-breaking as they were when they debuted