Because he only costs three mana, you can easily deploy him on the same turn you plan to gain a massive amount of life and catch the table off guard
Evoke cards do not need to be very high powered to be good cards, neither end needs to be above curve, just playable
BPhillipYork: Interesting, a generator that just turns into an 8/8 eventually with annihilator 2
Whatever the final number is, it's almost definitely the highest amount of money ever paid for a single MTG card.
What we can do, though, to pass the time between sets is to look the Japan's more frequent Pokmon TCG releases
For as crazy as Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff GX may sound, dont count on seeing it take first place at the next big Pokemon tournament