Retreating is a big element of play in competitive Pokmon, and finding ways to get their damaged/unprepared Pokmon out of the Active Spot is going to be very important when (and if) Gust of Wind Pokmon Catcher is released
There are a lot of card overlaps, but one deck wants to put the lands into play for landfall, while the graveyard-oriented version wants to discard and then return them, often only to hand to discard them again
If youre playing with amass, this blue instant is a bit better than a 1/1, but it does a lot of nice things for just a couple of mana
There are assumed to be 37 in existence, and only one of these cards was graded above this grade 9 mint one, which sold at a PWCC auction for nearly $22,000 in late February 2021. 24
Here are the decks we played: As you can see, they aren't just underpowered piles of commons
Alpha cards are easily distinguishable from Beta cards as unlike all succeeding sets, cards from Alpha have steeply rounded corners