In fact, this card was banned briefly in the real card game for being too powerful and was only allowed back recently with a limit of one per deck
With the release of Pokemon Pocket , however, players are captivated by opening digital packs on their mobile devices and scanning through their cards to see if they've collected something rare, or at least practical to use in the new 'Battle' mode (which is much shorter than actually playing Pokemon TCG)
Like, how far are we from actually being able to play Hostage Taker
It requires some graveyard setup and lets you draw cards if destroyed by battle
It essentially doubles the amount of damage you can do, making it much easier than normal to kill your opponent through damage
These serialized cards are printed in the language that each of the characters spoke, seen here on Leonardo da Vinci in Italian and Socrates and Cleopatra in Greek (with a cartouche in the flavor text for Cleopatra)