His ability to ready up again twice per turn when chosen for an action or an item's ability seems fairly good to me as well, with a high ceiling for shenanigans, from my initial impressions at least
Personally one of the reasons I liked the game was the varying deck-strategies you'd run up against in the gyms, especially in the grass and psychic gyms
For your most valuable holos and reverse holos, consider rigid toploaders or magnetic cases
It's hard to say whether this was a bad batch or if it's the new norm, but quality control looks to be an issue with Dragon Shields
Gold Pokmon cards are real, but only certain ones carry legitimate value
If the copied creature is copying something else, then Deceptive Frostkite enters as whatever that creature copied, with the listed exceptions