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While your first Pokmon is battling it out, the other five randomly dealt Pokmon in your hand have to sit dormant - warming the bench and having a good time waiting for their turn

It can be OK as a cheap mini wrath for a control player who can get some use out of the other ability with tokens etc but at that it is not worth a cube slot, certainly not a gold one

Gardevoir's "Psybeam" (90 damage + confusion) can disrupt your entire strategy

I think Copy Artifact would be more useful, perhaps even Phyrexian Metalmorpth and those are just more examples of cards that are a little too situational, slow or hard to cast to be worth it

Expanded format has 23 banned cards, including powerful Supporters and Pokemon with game-breaking abilities