It also digs in a 100-card deck and puts stuff into the graveyard for recursion, so it's synergistic with the format and various archetypes like Golgari Reanimation
Well, your deck derives an advantage from building up a board over time
You can search for pokemon cards with the card name and/or number and quickly find your card out of the 10,000+ Pokemon cards we have in the database
Pretty much every city in Japan has a store that sells trading cards
We would recommend unlocking each deck just to get a feel for them and add them all to your collection, but if you want to jump straight into battles with real opponents, focus on the Black & White: Basic Blue, Red and Green decks as they give you a bunch of handy trainer cards for building your own deck
Wizards should be finding new ways to design new and interesting ways to play the game