In TCG2, many such promos are readily available from booster packs and / or available through in-game trades, and coming back to the question of localisation, I can see how not putting Pokmon TCG2 to market in the 1999s West may have been about expectations management as much as the finicky affair of locking down 100+ new card translations for play
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Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the revealed card's mana value
Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Holiday Release Announced Wizards of the Coast announced new Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering products, including promo cards, scene boxes, a special edition commander deck, and a Chocobo Bundle coming in December