The expansion includes reprints of competitively useful Pokmon and Trainer cards alongside powerful Pokmon ex cards that support modern Scarlet & Violet deck strategies
Creatures end up in the graveyard, too, so Hallowed Spiritkeeper can make us a token army, which either attacks with +1/+1, Trample and Haste, or just pings or mills to death with our other payoffs
MDFCs, or modal double-faced cards, have modal right in the name
Rapid Strike is very dangerous against many top tier decks, but its not as unexpected as it once was, and its Giratina matchup is not as good as you might think, especially when Giratina plays four Path to the Peak
If it did care, itd be easy to make competitive MTG affordable by simply printing staples like fetch lands regularly into Standard, but thats not what happens
For Marshal to get its full value, you need a creature to die before playing it