The Early Days of The Pokmon TCG Were Incredibly Slow An Era of Attaching and Passing Turn In the early era of the Pokmon Trading Card Game , most people focused on collecting the valuable cards, and this persists to this day, as the Charizard from the base set is still worth thousands of dollars
Removal which will last from Standard into Eternal (and perhaps even get reprinted!) tends to be cheap, direct, and unconditional
The manga would sometimes reference simplistic games like table hockey or even toys that react to sound, some were more complex including the aforementioned card game against Kaiba or a chess like game using small monsters and while theres clearly some logic as to how the game plays out so readers can follow along, there is no design document explaining all the rules of these games simply because thats not what the manga is trying to do
If only there was no True-Name Nemesis, I could see this actually being a possibility in Legacy as a one- or two-of high end for Temur Delver in some metagames
I typically have less of those since in Commander it's harder to include them due to color identity restrictions
