While there are counterplays to Venusaur ex, such as one-shotting it with cards Charizard ex Tera, forcing a retreat or getting lucky with the coin flip, Venusaur ex generally does not have to worry too much about being able to stay on the field
It's tailor-made for go-wide artifact decks, especially ones running Third Path Iconoclast or Bronze Guardian to keep your field unbreakable
Eidolon of Rhetoric provides the same effect on a creature
Weirdly, the only difference between the prize cards is that those from the second tournament have a line specifying they're from the first ever Pokmon tournament
Thus, the rarity tables look as follows: image881795 20.7 KB image881607 12.5 KB image949418 13.3 KB image881826 21.1 KB For 1st Edition, it is noteworthy that there are pretty significant, if non-artificial, differences in pull rates, particularly between the different commons and uncommons