Each player has a deck of Pokemon cards, each with its own attacks, strengths, and weaknesses
This is huge because there are plenty of excellent Floodborn characters such as Beast Tragic Hero that wouldnt be played with shift (paying less ink to play on top of an existing Beast character) as the cost of playing it normally was easily justified with the power of the character
So yeah, if someones playing Pikachu ex and only has two Pokmon on their bench, youll whack them for 120, enough to take out the Pikachu in one hit
Its the kind of reliable binder that serious collectors swear by
The bond they share empowers them to act as one in battle as they push their strength to the limit, including as Pokemon ex
In this Iron Hands ex Special Illustration Rare for Prismatic Evolutions , its artwork by Kazumasa Yasukuni manages to take that design further with an alien atmosphere background