Part of the lovely presentational touches I mentioned earlier is things like lavish pack-opening animations, where each booster pack acquired can be opened with a flourish, cards revealed individually, common to rarest, like youre doing a breathless pack opening for YouTube
I have won a lot of games simply by throwing out a Boomerang on their land as soon as I can
The holofoil is nice, and that adds to the value, but there are prettier Pokmon Ex cards out there
You can just stay one relevant threat ahead the whole game
Once upon a time, only white and green got Grizzly Bears at common, and the past seven years have seen a corresponding decline in the power of removal (especially common removal)
They are also used once, and then put in the discard pile