Over 9 billion Pokmon cards were printed last year, a fifth of all the cards ever made That's one way to deal with a shortage
Even more than ten years on, this spell still remains the most potent one-sided board wipe ever printed
You can read his full biography from his website, and for a great interview with Donato, see Patrick Scalisis 2015 article Stories with Brushstrokes. You can also glean some background on his infamous hand work in my article Powerstone Shard and Hand Artistry from April 2018
While Vraska is a strong option for such a deck, there are other cards like Nissa, Who Shakes the World or Garruk Wildspeaker that may offer more versatile or impactful abilities, depending on the overall strategy of the deck
Confusion can be cured by evolving your pokemon , retreating them to Bench , or using the Lum Berry Pokemon Tool card
The design concept for the XY series back of a Pokmon card was inspired by the 3D effects of the Nintendo 3DS and the X and Y axes of the Cartesian coordinate system