There's also the fact that, until recently, Pokmon cards just looked better in Japanese
Twenty-Toed Toad doesnt care about the kind of counters, so you can use keyword counters to supplement your strategy
Despite Green being the colour of massive monsters, a lot of the best cards are actually found in other card types
This disruptive capability is essential in a meta where controlling the flow of the game is paramount
You can build a thematic deck based on one of these tribes to play against friends
While frequently thought of as a combo card or one for green creature decks here it is being put to use by Mono-Black Aggro: Creatures (31) 4 Phyrexian Obliterator 4 Diregraf Ghoul 3 Brain Maggot 2 Gifted Aetherborn 3 Graveyard Marshal 4 Spawn of Mayhem 3 Gutterbones 4 Rotting Regisaur 4 Knight of the Ebon Legion Lands (24) Spells (5) And finally, a mage after my own heart, Mystmin puts Phyrexian Tower to use in a relatively creature-light Grixis Control deck: Creatures (8) Planeswalkers (10) Lands (26) Spells (16) Lots of Grim Lavamancer, of course, but Languish also plays a big role here
