If youre playing Thragtusk, beating the aggressive decks is generally very easy (you have to do more work, but that work isnt difficult), and when both players have Thragtusks, games almost always go absurdly long
Consolidating Pokemon types is nothing new to the TCG, its something theyve done since the very beginning to make things less complicated -- for example, Fighting-, Rock-, and Ground-type Pokemon are all lumped under Fighting in the TCG -- but weve never seen a whole typing removed from the game before
The backgrounds also add to the atmosphere, such as with their Ralts card, where it looks around in awe at the academy in Paldea
The Expansion Sets Jungle: Released in summer 1999
OP-15s 3 guaranteed SRs cover 4,5006,900 of the box cost, with SEC and SP as pure upside