While pull rates for these cards were relatively good (roughly one in every two booster boxes), that combined with the passage of time, nostalgia, and the original limited print run make for a collection of cards that are among the most desirable and expensive in all of the Pokemon TCG
You can suspend it for with X time counters and when you remove a time counter from it, you'll draw a card
In game terms, Scrooge McDuck has a 5 Ink cost, 3 Strength and 5 Willpower, along with 1 point of Lore
Even some zero-mana creatures, like Ornithopter or Memnite, will help grow Animar
The Power of Evil lets the cost decrease for each character card in a player's discard, however, making it possible to get him on the table at a discount