This is one of many cards that played into our recent use of double creature types
For example, even for the same Pikachu promo, the budget and number of candidates will change significantly between looking only at PSA 10 and including PSA 9 as a candidate. Deciding your tolerance line first reduces wasted comparisons
Pair your apes with cards like Seedborn Muse, Eternal Witness, and Old-Growth Troll
Construct great giants like Machina Mayhem's enormous Machina Fortress and Machine Re-Volt's powerful Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon and decimate your foes, or harness the might of the Cyber Dragon in Cyber Dragon Revolution to summon the Cyber Twin Dragon or the new Xyz Monster Cyber Nova Dragon
Gyruda was the card that got the whole ball rolling, as far as I can tell, or at least the one that put the problem under the microscope
Were almost overloaded with good things to do and play and this giving double counters plus the ability to add counters (all sorts of sick enabling going on here) means that the Earth Crystal will always be a good option for these decks going forward