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Anecdotally, theme boosters are also a great tool for newcomers who are still feeling out their preferred colors

In fact, as Atsushi Nagashima notes in a 2019 Famitsu interview about the TCG development: () At the time, Pokemon Red & Green were still in development, but from how you could collect 151 species of Pokmon, and the games turn-based battle system, it was very compatible with the TCG format. (Translated by Siliconera) The following card prototypes were all taken from the 1996 August, September, and October issue of CoroCoro Comic and restored by us

(The picture is an example of the cards you could receive.)

The card designers also realized that evolution is, in fact, a disadvantage, and made evolved Pokmon stronger in every way to make up for needing more deck space and being harder to play