Your opponent doesn't know if you are ramping with Elder or keeping it about until it is too late
Ideally, you should use I:P to go into monsters that have on-summon effects
During your turn, it walks you through each phase, directing you on what actions you can take play a land card, cast a spell, attack, etc
Enchantment Color tag templates(None) Enchantment (CTRL to add secondary) Instant Qty: 23 Price: $71.13 Arachnogenesis Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you
At the time, there were not that many cards due to the fact that there were not many Pokemon
Passing the turn without playing a card, however, sets the memory back to 3 (to your opponent), which means that its almost never an option to just pass instead of playing cards, even if playing the card is the suboptimal play, because not spending memory would be an even worse decision