Between scalpers buying up supplies to resell online, excessive card theft, and aggressive customers, these stores will not only discontinue the sports trading cards, but all other trading card games as well, including the popular Pokmon trading cards
The new Kakuna is neat too, with an attack that can paralyze the opponent's Active Pokmon, stopping them from making an attack, and forcing them to face Beedrill's giant stinger on the following turn
Alpha and Beta cards look incredibly similar, with the main difference being that Alpha cards corners are much rounder than on Beta
And this is combined, for example, with healing cards, usually with heavy Pokmon that depend on 4 basic energies or more, like Charizard VMAX DAA 20, or those Pokmon that use special energies like Mewtwo & Mew-GX UNM 71 to replace them using the Scramble Switch , using healing cards like Acerola BUS 112, without losing those energies
As mentioned above, if you wanted to play the card Aeromunculus, for example, you'd need to include islands and forests in your deck to give you a good chance of having access to both colors throughout the game
Additionally, since theyre square corner cards, and not normal cards, its not something that just anyone could make, even if they had a huge expensive printing press
