Win the battle with the bond between teacher and student
But there are two things that make this rough to play beyond the obvious "you don't get to play anything on turns 1 and 2"
It landed during the short lived e-Reader era, so the cards carry those dot codes along the edge, and it handed collectors a genuine run of firsts, like the debut of an EX Rayquaza, the first Dragonite to appear in the EX Series, and the first Charizard Nintendo ever produced after taking the license from Wizards of the Coast (WotC)
Giving players a choice between two spells on one card decreases the variance in a similar way, and Valki, God of Lies is a great example
They are 4 drop pieces of equipment, equip for life, that give +1/+1 to the equipped dork for each Swamp you control