pokemon card hippopotas #84 Prices | Evolving Skies Fighting / 100 / Basic Attack 1 Hippopotas 039/088 ME03: Perfect Order

This ability doesnt just give the caster a second windit resets the battlefield, potentially flipping an entire game in an instant

Ardoz's text also says whenever it or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, that creature gets +2/+0 until the end of your turn

The reason for the ban is the huge upside of combo decks gaining a ton of resources and basically drawing their entire decks

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Similarly, if you can just ignore their powerful threats you can just win anyway

It recently saw play in some Standard control decks