Every time you exploit a creature, your whole board gets +1/+1 counters, so the payoff is real
However, gloss surfaces are highly reflective and can become "tacky." In our experience, Gloss cards tend to stick together during a Commander game on a humid day, causing mis-shuffles
As such, you're most likely better off just using this for its front-facing effect about 90% of the time
The card game has released these "Dark Synchro Monsters" as regular Synchro Monsters, though they require a DARK-attribute Tuner monster instead as opposed to Konami releasing Dark Tuners
Well lander tokens are great, but the extra you need to spend with Sunstar Expansionist to get the land is significant
A game loss removes one game from your match record