At least digital card games offer the chance to respond to this sort of thing a bit more quickly.
Also, imagine trying to attack an opponent with six mana up, a bunch of cards in hand, and three payoffs in playitd like be paralyzing, and your opponent could just keep making land drops while building up an even better defense you cant see
(#27 Overall) - Cult Conscript Our top-scoring uncommon, Black card, dork, and one-drop is this 2/1 that arrives to the party tapped
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As it turned out, I was completely wrong, and the turn-three Batterskull I was fearing so much doesnt ever happen anymore as most of the time the card is used to fetch Colossal Hammer, and even fetching Kaldra Compleat is often not powerful enough for the format as the card sees little play outside of Hammer Time
Some benefits of having specific Pokmon cards include: Being able to complete your collection