The Shiny Vault concept was deceptively simple but commercially brilliant: take popular Pokemon and present them in their alternate "shiny" colorations, the rare color variants that Pokemon video game players have spent hundreds of hours hunting since Generation II introduced the mechanic
Did your opponent just target your creature with a removal spell
PrintMTG proxies and dimension consistency If your goal is a clean table experience, the practical requirement is simple: your cards should sleeve and shuffle consistently
The two packs that players can open cards from are based on the boxart Legendaries for Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver : Ho-Oh and Lugia
A counter does not go away when you Bench the Pokmon, but it does go away if the Pokmon evolves (damage counters are a special exception to this rule)
Yu-Gi-Oh!'s similarities to Pokemon don't stop there, however, as there are plenty of monsters that resemble Pokemon, some of which could even be seen as an homage to the Pocket Monsters