On one hand, between the plethora of Pokmon with moves that deal damage randomly in some way, the risks of hands being bricked with too many Energy or Pokmon cards, and the alternate win conditions, a novice player with a suboptimal deck is always within a remote chance of winning such that they may not readily learn the deeper theory of deck construction being about mitigating random factors
Collectors love them for their vibrant artwork, unique holo patterns, and those rare cards that never get printed outside Japan making them feel like hidden treasures in the Pokmon world
Players are cracking their packs and sharing their pulls, grappling with the hugely inflated prices at this early stage
You can even bounce a land with Ambrosia Whiteheart to guarantee you'll have a landfall trigger go off
Exalted Your creatures with exalted get +1/+1 whenever they attack alone
In the majority of peoples minds, a Pokemon card is a TCG card