Its a very simple strategy: Deal direct damage early to reap massive discounts via your commander
Unlike Djeru, whose eyes definitely arent closed, Choose a Background means youre not locked into mono-white
Finally, its another competition prize, this time for victors in the Japanese World Summer Challenge in 2000, where winners got the chance to be immortalised in their own, exclusive Pokmon card
According to Goldin, these Trophy cards were awarded to the top finishers of these events, with this particular copy having been sourced from the 1998 Japanese Kamex Mega Battle Pokmon events
There was also something about the LM Mew at the time, finally having a set focussed around the first mythical, so I gave that a vote too