I want to play a deck with cards that may not be great on their own, but stack up really favorably against the popular decks that I anticipate lots of people will be playing
2019-01-25 Once a creature with riot has entered the battlefield, it keeps its +1/+1 counter or haste even if it loses riot
While nearly 100,000 decks play Feast/Famine, only 30,000 play Light/Shadow
For one Grass and one C Energy, it has a base damage of 30 that increases by the same amount for every prize your Opponent takes, which means by end game, it can swing up to 180 damage, enough to KO anything without Eviolite
Mega Charizard Y ex Charizard rarely needs an explanation
The result of this advancement in the player bases overall skill was a rise in the focus on combos and card advantage over pure damage as a decks goal