heat wave arena japanese booster box Pokémon Japanese version Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Heat

these cards arent unplayable

It also doesnt let creatures with defender, your best big-butt creatures, attack, something a real toughness commander would do

Take this 1999 Shadowless Chansey that sold in 2020 for $36,877, for example

The greatest power among creatures target opponent controls is determined solely by evaluating the creatures that player controls at that time

Its getting to a point where it just feels silly to let artists create so much beautiful work, and then make it so phenomenally difficult for anyone to see any of it

At the time, Pokemon Red & Green were still in development, but from how you could collect 151 species of Pokemon, and the games turn-based battle system, it was very compatible with the TCG format