Although you can make money by selling subsequent versions of Pokemon cards, the original cards might be the most desirable
Archers remind me of minotaurs pre- Theros when Didgeridoo was the only incentive to play them, and people would play really bad cards like Hurloon Minotaur
Explore lets Hakbal decks utilize a huge range of possible sub-themes with their merfolk: +1/+1 counters, landfall, self-mill and recursion, topdeck mechanics like cascade and discover, even hand-size matters and self-discard
Making a 3/3 blocker can kill a 2/3 attacker, and once you've done that once, no one will attack you again
Maas one of my favorite authors) I thought it had actually ended with Book 3 and now that I found out theres a Book 4 coming I cant wait
Its ability makes it a must-have for some decks' benches