Particularly powerful cards would be rarer than others, making collecting and trading them as much a part of the experience as actually playing matches
Well, now Pokmon cards, and opening them on Twitch streams and in YouTube videos, are all the rage again, and it turns out some of those cards you got as a kid may be valuable today, if you kept themand kept them in good shape
This version of the card was awarded at the second Pokmon TCG tournament held in 1998, but the card's description actually claims that it came from the first ever tournament, which isn't true
Despite being at the bottom of our 10 most valuable Paradox Rift cards, Tapu Koko exs Alternative Art still goes for a pretty penny as of release
The broader picture is that OP-16 didn't introduce a hard counter to Purple Enel's engine, but the format around it has shifted