pokemon card xatu Stage 1 Vintage Uncommon - 1st Edition

This opens slots up for more generically powerful cards, making the deck powerful with Stella in play, but not reliant on her to function

Well, if you hit a Wrenn's Resolve off Geological Appraiser, are you happy

From there, you can follow up with a Pippin, Warden of Isengard, and its ability to sacrifice four Food tokens to give all your other creatures +3/+3 and haste to stand up against your foes

In addition, it is very easy to trade knockouts favourably since my attackers are usually OHKOing my opponents Pokemon but very rarely get OHKOed in return (especially with Pot Helmet)

The first of those is cost reduction, and the second is when a card allows you to take extra turns