With Sword & ShieldFusion Strike , we got the popular Fusion Strike deck featuring Sword & ShieldBrilliant Stars , we saw the rise of GX decks, and Trinity Nova does the same for Arceus VSTAR
This has been realized expertly on cards such as Vault 11: Voters Dilemma
A five-mana hard counter with cascade brings another free spell to the party
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There's the odd bit of flair in type- or Pokmon-specific benefits to the gym leader cards, with one for each of the original Indigo League's eight leaders from Pokmon Red, Blue, and Yellow - Koga, for instance, lets you pick up an active Weezing card and its pre-evolution Koffing and put them back in your hand, making it a handy stalling or recycling tactic
Even without other synergies, hes somewhat broken mechanically: bare minimum, Vivis ability should have been a tap ability to begin with