The point is, as the hobby continues to be inaccessible to people unwilling to pay stupid prices for childrens cardboard, its worth considering a switch to Japanese (or really any other language), maybe even just temporarily while The Pokmon Company re-evaluates its printing strategies
Cards from Alpha have a different corner radius than any other tournament-legal Traditional Magic card
To start, a player will choose a handful of core Pokemon that set out to achieve the same goal
Any deck can play a colorless card, which leads to cards like Skullclamp and Reckoner Bankbuster catching bans for homogenizing Magic formats
It is a great display piece if you happen to have the cash for it
Its an effective commander, though, and my personal zombie legend of choice