The visual approach is more promising but still imperfect
Understanding these market trends is not just interestingits strategic
There's a pretty good chance you've seen them before, and you may want a refresher, but 40 is a lot, so you never know
If you just want to stomp the game I think things are easiest with Squirtle and friends by far, since you can build it into a Rain Dance deck later and have something that's out of any of the CPU trainers' league, whereas Charizard and Venusaur aren't as competitively powerful(though Pokemon Center cheese with Venusaur is pretty entertaining...), but you can really get away with doing a decent version of whatever you feel like running so I'd just go with whatever you think sounds fun
From this wide-angle perspective, these attempts to eat into the aftermarket seem distinctly anti-consumer and likely to provoke a significant backlash
Hitoshi Ariga supplied art for this card which shows Poipole in a similarly creepy background which is offset beautifully by the glowing pink aura coming from its head and gamer-headset-esque blue glow which turns its face into a Jack-O-Lantern
