This is the first Pokmon TCG card ever made November 30, 1996 matte reprint: credits "Keiji Kinebuchi" (corrected), distributed in a booklet called Easily Understand How to Play Pokmon Cards September 15, 1998 glossy reprint: credits "Keiji Kinebuchi" (corrected), mailed out to 2,000 prize draw winners via CoroCoro If you're buying the original 1996 card, confirm "Ken Sugimori" is printed on it before you pay
So, you are put in a position of not just weighing the two cards against each other in a power-level sense, but in a probability-of-playing-them sense as well
What I will say is, one of these cards is useful if you have any creature available, and the other is really only decent if you've got hordes of them or some kind of loop set up
That being said, Im not comfortable with this recent trend in Pokemon towards any card with a girl on it going for exorbitant amounts online
As a Flagship Battle promo, this Luffy signifies a powerful card often at the core of aggressive or tempo-oriented strategies