You might complain "but we don't all have the same cards, we just have random cards, it's unbalanced!" But the thing is, that's actually part of the FUN of CCGs, something that typically gets swept under the floor and ignored: it's actually fun to have asymmetric pools of cards to make decks from
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The rarer full-art Pokmon cards, though, include illustration rares (non-ex versions with borders but special pictures) and special art rares (which are more colorful and also commonly feature trainers and evolved Pokmon)
It limits how many poison counters you can receive each turn, so its an all-star against infect or toxic decks
Moreover, there are plenty of easily obtained cards like Revitalize (the 1W instant that cantrips and gains you 3 life) or Dwarven Priest (the Conclave Phalanx for 3W without Convoke) that can turn on Nightmares Thirst
(Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Wight of the Reliquary One black, one green Creature Zombie Knight 2/2 Vigilance Wight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard