gyrados pokemon card X & Y Ancient Origins Single Rare Gyarados #20 Placeholder Image Provided Dark Gyarados Team Rocket Pokemon

In terms of gameplay it was once again a replica of the same moveset as the Flashfire M Charizard EX

It's a tempo loss of cards and a card loss since they have to draw it again

The EV of a video game would go something like this

It basically makes decks like the ones built around Prosper, Tome-Bound almost useless

The 151 set ran a high-density SAR lineup featuring Nanjamo SAR (which has traded north of $800 for most of 2024-2026) and a reprinted Charizard ex SAR variant, both of which remain among the most-searched Japanese Pokemon SARs of the entire era

There are 'control' players in every card game, but in Pokmon they had uniquely powerful tools that made them too oppressive, so oppressive that they needed bans to stop them