pokemon trading card game classic review Retro Review: Pokémon Pokemon Trading Card Game Classic

Core deck archetypes: Prison, Big Red, aggro, tokens, and counters

(Of which, I think the City Styles felt the best to me in the past year

Its a good card to bounce/flicker, and youll want threshold, something thats even in Standard right now, with the Bloomburrow rats and Kiora, the Rising Tide

Hope isdwindling and the spark of individuality and rebellion is nothing but an ember

Sure, copying spells isn't exactly brand-new tech, but getting copies of creature spells on the stack is relatively newer space, and the fact that Volo has a built-in "drawback" to achieve that - you have to spread your creature types around to get the value - pushes deck-building away from the usual suite of 40 value staples and forces deck-builders to go a little deeper into the tank