Physical Japanese Pokemon cards give you what the app never can: SAR textures you can feel, MUR chase cards worth hundreds of dollars, PSA grading that turns cards into verified assets, and permanent ownership that outlasts any server
Pokmon are essential to winning, but they aren't the only strong cards to include in a deck
Acrobatic Maneuver Airbender's Reversal Angelic Ascension Artful Maneuver Blade Banish Blazing Hope Blessed Light Break Ties Center Soul Cloudshift Crib Swap Devouring Light Dispatch Divine Smite Elspeth's Smite Emerge Unscathed Ephemerate Expel Flicker of Fate Getaway Glamer Gideon's Defeat Iron Verdict Justiciar's Portal Kaya's Onslaught Last Breath Long Road Home March of Otherworldly Light Momentary Blink Not on My Watch Otherworldly Journey Parting Gust Path to Exile Personify Pillar of Light Prepare // Fight Quicksand Whirlpool Radiant Purge Reciprocate Repel the Vile Resounding Silence Ride's End Scrollshift Semester's End Shining Shoal Slip On the Ring Soul Nova Start // Finish Thraben Charm Thraben Exorcism Time to Reflect Trostani's Judgment Vanish into Eternity
And your plans can start to fall apart if those combo conditions can't be met
If your opponent has an oppressive artifact or enchantment, knock it out and cycle Kogla and Yidaro into your library, and hopefully you'll see the ape dinosaur turtle again soon
Basking Broodscale This combos with a ham sandwich