While the card is underwhelming for the most part Ive found that it is very crucial against Extra Deck reliant decks, specifically U.A., and is also very important in games 2 and 3 because it makes your defense very robust
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For Brocks Protection they call out that the Japanese prevents Energy from being peeled off but the English says removed, and the author seems to define removed as discard given this interpretation the Japanese wording would protect from return Energy to hand effects like Thought Wave Machine, or move Energy around effects like Dark Magnetons Magnetic Lines attack, whereas the English would not
However, getting it on the field requires a lot of setup
Whenever you target a creature with an instant or sorcery spell, you may exile a target creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control as the beginning of the next end step