Its odd, then, that it took until 2022 for the One Piece Card Game to be released (though there was a previous One Piece Collectible Card Game in 2003, which was very short-lived), but its proven pretty popular and seems to have found quite a dedicated fanbase, of both players and collectors of the games beautiful cards
The scrappy Voltron player learned to make do with suboptimal tools, and has a greater grasp of the ebbs and flows of a game
Another interesting thing to exploit with the mechanic is to convert 3/1 fliers into 4/2s (Brazen Borrower, Elite Spellbinder) since they'll be able to get the counter with 1 toughness
The full arts, the rainbow rares, the border popping amazing rares they continue to produce cards that I want
The blue backs could have been planned to release as promo with the Blue release In October 96