For control style decks, you get to disrupt whatever plans your opponent was depending on and as a bonus, you can make sure your next draw can also ruin their next play
Triskelion, for example, would enter the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it rather than three.
Match Battle is reportedly intended to bridge young folks and new players into the full rules of the Pokmon TCG
The base set alone is 244 unique cards, numbered 001/182 through the secret rares
Card Name Mana Cost Type Creature Goblin Warrior Ally Rarity Common rules Text Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.) Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Flavor Text There are old goblins and ambitious goblins, but very few old, ambitious goblins
I find that the deck does an exceptionally good job at creating tokens, especially Clues and Food, but it feels short on meaningful things to do with those tokens aside from sacrifice them for their normal effects