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While you can see the coolness of the illustration covering the entire card and the different texture from regular cards, the unique shine of rare cards is not conveyed

Adding a Phoenix or two to the deck interests me for a few reasons

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When Sparkling Crystal is attached to a Tera Pokmon, it substitutes as any one energy on that card , meaning that the Pokmon it is attached to requires one less energy to attack

Board complexity We don't like having common cards that make it hard to tell what's going on in play

I saw @Quuador posted essentially the same thing but I didnt quite get the gist of the conversation