The creature cards that have cycling often have high mana values, which work perfectly with Ellie and Alan
3 Squidward, Sarcastic Snob Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar Squidward's first ability may be a great way to protect your creatures in combat, but his real strength is as an unblockable-focused commander
It shouldnt be too hard to find a way to put a stray counter on this with some other effect, and then you have a big menace creature that you only invested 2 mana into
If you're lucky enough, or with the addition of other effects to adjust your dice rolls, you can manipulate your results to get near infinite rolls, giving you the possibility of infinite damage from a card like Brazen Dwarf which deals one damage every time you roll a die.
Ive played cards like Haunted Fengraf in the past for this very reason, and Eden, Seat of the Sanctum looks so much better
Theyre fine as art pieces, but they have zero value as real Pokemon cards and can confuse newer collectors if people pretend theyre rare promos