Amped Raptor, for example, generates two energy when it enters, and it then lets you spend energy counters instead of mana to cast spells exiled from the top of your library
Like every Pokmon team needs Pokmon, every deck needs at least one Basic Pokmon to be legal, and the fun is how you use your 60-card 'team' to win the game
So, as you can imagine, you could burn money on this game
Since GameFreak changed the design of Pikachu to be slimmer around the time the anime and Pokemon Yellow were released, there arent a ton of different thicc Pikachu cards
They also know the price ranges of official products and -- most importantly -- have meta knowledge , an understanding of "what's being played" and the efficient tactics in each format