Defiant Thundermaw is a huge, must answer threat, that like the front side gets better if you're playing more dragons but doesn't need to be surrounded by them to be good
if you have 2 or more Plant Link Monsters with the same name as each other in your GY, Special Summon 1 of them
Manifest has you place the selected card facedown as a 2/2 which can be turned faceup later for its mana cost if its a creature
While both franchises deal with the battling of monsters, where Pokmon simply evolve, you have infinitely more control over Yu-Gi-Oh monsters through the almost infinite combination of spell and trap cards that can be applied, allowing you to execute complex strategies to defeat your opponents
Blastoise looks like it's ready to charge into battle, while Piplup just wants to ride the waveliterally
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