Its not as egregious as other card draw or counters engines, meaning it earns bonus under-the-radar points, too
Limit Break -- Remove three limit counters from Aerith: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn
So even if you compare mathematically, the Illustrator should be even more than that, but thats not how it works
Further to this I thought I wanted to contain the synergies to their own colour pairing, being ideally two colours, and at maximum three if needed
Then theres Celebi ex with a 50x attack offering a coin flip for every energy it has attached, and perhaps most powerfully, a Stage 2 Serperior that, while sitting on your bench, has an Ability called Jungle Totem that means every Grass energy attached to any of your cards counts double