While the Ether/Pokdex engine didnt turn out to be as effective as most people thought, it still creates the chance that somebody will start ripping through your Pokmon left and right
Side Note: the reason why I chose to only run 2 Swallow's Slashes instead of 3 was because a) I'd found that 45 was a good deck size, with an 85% chance of opening with a play that would lead into the minimum of Fraulein or Samuraisaga, so to add a third copy would mean either dropping Trinities or bumping up to 50 b) Swallow's Slash requires a Shiranui monster in your deck to be banished, so while running multiple copies would be good, they would typically lose their usefulness as the duel would go on due to not always having Shiranuis in the deck to be able to resolve it
0 Smokescreen : 10 During your opponents next turn, if the Defending Pokmon tries to attack, your opponent flips a coin
However, Charizard VSTAR's regular attack, Explosive Fire, deals extra damage if Charizard VSTAR has damage on it
While many of the more impressive cards are classified as either Holo rare or Ultra rare, Pokmon TCG fans should know that pull rates for rare cards appear to be higher with this set compared to past collections
OK, actually, they probably weren't the ones photographing their own villainous machinations, but you get the picture