My concern comes into play when people begin to look at their decks and say "what minimal changes can I make to start with an additional card," as I did with our deck last week, because I feel like that's outside of the spirit of companions
Short answer: Yes, Japan Showcase cards are valuable, especially fracture foils
While the most obvious question we could ask is, Is there a Commander deck here? the question I set out to answer was, What does Energy do that will contribute to a winning strategy? Its easy to see Energy as more of a Rube Goldberg machine than an effective resource, and so I set out with the intention of doing just that
These go on the Stack at the same time, and you can choose what order they go in - but each effect is identical, so it really doesn't matter
Carmen is a high-investment card