Heck, even Ral Zarek is about as dull as it gets with a $5 planeswalker
Being handed such a powerful tool directly by WotC replaces the sense of discovery and ownership, especially when everyone else is playing it, too
joponnes March 9, 2025, 9:14pm 13 I have to say i see no reason to call bandai or other non tcg brands something else than pokemon cards since thats what they are, obviously tcg cards are the most popular ones and when people think of pokemon cards thats probably what they first think of, but to say cards produced by brands like topps, bandai or topsun arent pokemon cards is imo a bit odd thing to say Josh March 9, 2025, 9:24pm 14 If you wanted to simplify things a bit by excluding test prints, prototypes and other cards of potentially questionable authenticity, then the first mass produced, demonstrably authentic, TCG cards were the No Rarity variant Japanese Expansion Pack (Base Set) cards
Like many past Pokemon games, the new Pokemon Legends Arceus lets you choose what your trainer is wearing during the game, and to do that you will need to know how to buy clothes and change outfits
Even more importantly, the untap ability allows them to generate tons of mana for explosive turns while turning Gwenna into a hefty threat
There were no good answers to a Frenetic Efreet, only answers that worked half the time, so as long as you weren't far enough behind that he was ignorable the Efreet was always effective