Its a wonderfully flavorful take on a notoriously oppressive creature, literally allowing you to trap a creature within the Gelatinous Cube where it can eventually be devoured unless the Cube can be dealt with first
Not only was it never made available in packs, but it was only ever given to members of the English FA's Pokemon Youth Futsal Program
Tidebinder deals with Kaito nicely while interacting with many of their cards favorably
However, despite the hype, Heritage Auctions estimates the frequency of seeing this variant in the set as opposed to the "typical" red cheek version at 50/50
Over the years, we've made several cards that steal opponent's creatures, but I was tickled by the idea of exchanging creatures rather than stealing them
I did this tally by searching on Scryfall with a year:20xy query (which provides all cards printed that year) do note that for 2023, we only have partial results: So, Fact #1 : Card output started to ramp up in 2019, saw a huge spike in 2022, and by August 2023 we've already seen more cards than any whole year prior to 2019
