While the developers were correct to operate under the assumption that many, if not most of its audience were not going in with extensive competitive Pokmon card knowledge, it should have made an allowance for those who already knew how to play either from playing with or reading about real Pokmon cards or from having already played through the Game Boy Color game before starting a new adventure
The first Pokemon trading cards were released in Japan in 1996, before hitting the U.S market in 1998, and in 1999 Wizards of the West Coast published the first full 103-card set
Second only to Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning is an incredibly efficient burn spell
Gene doesn?t focus too much on any particular tactics, however, he?ll use the Defender/Self Destruct trick if he gets his Golem out
Good redundancy for those strategies
Vivien just hits that sweet spot of doing what you need from that sort of card given the types of places you will play her