That more than makes up for its low toughness which will only be relevant in games where your opponent is going wide anyways
Once Niv is in play, incremental damage sources (like ping creatures) become card advantage engines, allowing you to out-value opponents
On turn 3 you draw your card and lo and behold it is x, where x can be any of the following cards and you need a Claydol GE (of which you run 2 and neither is prized) to evolve your Baltoy GE this turn because your hand is dead otherwise: Usually the other 2 cards are used instead of Pok Ball as they do not involve flipping and therefore should be better than Pok Ball
While Pikachu does indeed look to be under some sort of duress, we have to admit that his dismay is heart-meltingly cute, and the same goes for Eevee , who also stars in a special The Scream card case
Thats three cards, healing, and an impressive 1/5 body with two lore value, all in one card
Cards are just a hair thinner than the official ones, but it is in no way a complaint nor an issue from me, just that I wanted to put that here for others