This battle-ready Pokmon features an ability called Emperor's Eyes, a suited name for a Pokmon based on the emperor penguin, and as long as Empoleon is the player's active Pokmon it completely negates any of the player's basic Pokmon abilities (except for those that have a rule box)
This can lead to mind games to make them sacrifice a creature they would want to keep, since they assume you want to get rid of their best one, while forcing them to also sacrifice a different one
Locking players out of half of all the spells in the game is hilarious, and changes everyone's entire game plan to I need to kill that Void Winnower. As long as you have enough odd-mana-valued spells to keep playing, this 9-mana monster should bring you close to ending the game right then and there
For instance, right now the booster packs that you can open are from the Generation Apex expansion
(It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded
In this alternative universe, Pokmon come to life through powerful cards that you collect and use to tackle challenges in the story mode