The Johto Starter Trio: Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile are another great trio to color
It provides a little ramp in the form of Treasure tokens, and allows you to sacrifice those Treasures to exile the top card from your library and play it that turn
One of my favorites is using Heliod, Sun-Crowned to put +1/+1 counters on him in order to make it harder for opponents to pay
Its a slightly cheaper Grim Hireling with a way to convert those treasures into impulse draw
Fills in the blanks of Extra Deck Summoning that Pendulum Fusion did not, and ties into our favorite tomato-haired attention sink, Yuya, by allowing it to literally 'swing into' Action Spells and Those Performapals Almost Nobody Uses
As you can see from the title of the edition of these cards, they do not have shadows