Reading these cards could never explain these cards, and for my money, thats a design step too far
Charmander is one of three start Pokmon that can be chosen in the Pokmon video games (the other two are Squirtle and Bulbasaur)
Whats incredibly surprising is that, back then, Captain Hook, Forceful Duelist was at the bottom of the list overall, so its quite a turnaround to see it at the very top of the list, even after numerous sets of the main game are out in the wild
On defense, the fact that this creature comes into play tapped does not play well with the fact that Gravecrawler cant block
Pro Tip: Struggling to tune your deck
Its ability to generate warrior tokens and turn mana into extra combat steps leads to explosive turnsespecially when you have infinite mana