Millions of people have fond memories of playing the original Red and Blue games, or trading cards in the playground for that elusive shiny Charizard (if your school didnt ban them)
The value of some of the rarer cards continues to shoot up at an alarming rate, yet there is rarely any correlation between a card's monetary value and its usefulness in a game
While Distort also does 50 damage for the cost of 1-darkness and 1-colorless, Sonic Volume does 120 damage for the cost of an extra psychic energy
Green Chocobos and Cactuars abound in green, with one of the most noteworthy giving itself an eye-watering +9999/+0 buff whenever it attacks
The decks have some mass removal, and more targeted, but there are definitely more threats than there are answers so the stalemate is generally not going to last
Here are a few of them and what they stand for: Pokmon EX Pokmon EX cards are often named the same as their non-EX variants