At its most extreme, players on Turn 3, the opening player's first chance to attack, could therefore play a Misty and have a board with Starmie ex and two Articuno ex all capable of unleashing their strongest attacks
Japanese sealed box collectors
Whether you choose to go tall with Ezuri, Claw of Progress or wide with Atraxa, Praetors Voice, building your creatures up to titanic proportions with +1/+1 counters is a tactic as old as time
Three expansions were released that year, and CoroCoro kept the promo pipeline running in parallel
It doesn't run anything that powerful, but if it regularly cleans up at bracket 1 and 2 tables I may have to reassess my estimation of the deck's power level
Meddling Mage is probably my favorite blue guy