Ryu is quite flexible in terms of his overall playstyle in Commander
Faithbound Judge // Sinners Judgment Only requiring three turns once its in play, Sinners Judgement is a surprisingly effective alternate win-con
You can untap and perform your combo freely, and since it's immune to instant speed removal, your opponents only hope is to try and counter it
That plan may involve taking fast Prize cards with a powerful Pokmon ex, setting up a Stage 2 attacker that can take repeated knockouts, spreading damage across the opponents board, denying Energy, disrupting the opponents hand, or trading efficiently with smaller Pokmon
The origin of this card was a concern by development that tokens were getting a little too strong
The regular version rose from $17 to around $22 while the variants held their value