The main thing that makes it stand out to me is that it can counter activated and triggered abilities, which is a very rare effect that can leave an unexpecting opponent wide open to reprisal
And then I became a game designer
Any effects that modify the target creature's power and/or toughness without setting them to a specific number or value will apply after its base power and toughness are set, regardless of the order in which those effects were created
The fact they also contain a booster allows you to start deck building as well, but you will need to buy more to make the decks competitive
The rest remain in your bench a row of cards behind the active Pokmon where you hold five other Pokmon who wait to battle it out against your opponent, a bit like your party in the Pokmon video games
Apocalypse , the third set in the Invasion block, had an enemy-color theme (the first two sets were focused on ally-color pairs), so it redid a lot of the popular mechanical elements from Invasion and Planeshift , one of which was split cards