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Pull any of these chase cards yourself

There are certainly some themes present in this expansion, but because of the sixteen games in the series, it feels like the cards are all designed to do various weird and unique things, at the cost of them being rather weak in power level

I played the Game Boy games and watched the show, but the TCG was all the craze

You can find substitutes for cards, such as Kor Cartographer and Pilgrim's Eye for Solemn Simulacrum

This can help you accumulate the cost needed for Hyper Beam, which does 50 damage and lets you flip a coin to see if you can discard one of your opponents Energy cards.