Also learning he was a Yu-Gi-Oh
All Shining Pokemon are classified as being in the basic stage, so they can be played immediately without needing to evolve them or meet any other criteria
Its strategic value rather than raw damage is why it still appears in discussions about the strongest Pokemon cards ever printed
One of the tricks of building a Modern sideboard is to include cards that do something relevant in a wide range of matchups, since there are simply too many decks to dedicate sideboard slots to each one individually, and the fact that Isolate hits a very diverse range of targets and is live against nearly every deck in the format could mean that it ends up as a sideboard staple
This gives the card value long after most mana dorks have given up the Goose, and makes it an auto-include in most Food-centric lists
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