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Using extra ink to move your characters to Motunui before sacrificing them in a challenge is also a great strategy, since every one of your characters that's banished there will move to your inkwell instead of your discard pile
(The turn you must wait to use a freshly-played character while they dry is also a much cuter image than Magics summoning sickness.) Being able to add a facedown card from your hand to your inkwell immediately overcomes the common MTG and Pokmon bugbear of finding yourself with no land or energy cards - any Lorcana card with the ink marker around its cost can be turned into ink - and sparks a delicious dilemma about which cards to sacrifice to the inkwell in order to play others
These alternate boarder cards are pretty intriguing and are popping up in the latest Lorcana products, like the red boarder Costco exclusive promo
This guide features three upgrade paths for this starter deck
To be real, Ruby/Emerald was not only the first starter deck I ever got, it was one of my favorites