The obsession with serialised cards and The One Ring also sapped away some of the excitement, turning it into a lottery for people who dont care about Magic more than a new set to enjoy
With plenty of cards to manipulate the board, you can keep knocking out your opponents Pokemon with very little setup.
Furthermore, this lack of some types makes classifying specific Pokmon rather difficult, as their type often doesn't exist in the card game
[Two men] fell off a beach cliff because they were too distracted [while playing]
Lilysplash Mentor is just a one-of for blink value, but the real payoff here is Dour Port-Mage, which is the most important engine piece in our deck
In a format with longer games, I'll let you figure out which of those is better and which is vanishingly worse