buy unopened pokemon cards 180 Yen each which is $1.22 per card pack at a pokemon store in Japan. They won't sell you sealed pokemon boxes. They open a sealed pokemon box and let you class Pack Shiny Treasure ex (シャイニートレジャーex) set of the Pokemon TCG Pokemon Japanese Shiny Treasure ex

Pod decks usually devolve into combo decks, but fair Pod decks exist too, using it as a value engine

Doubling damage This ability is a little bit more roundabout, but it does help enable red's creatures and direct damage to kill creatures they normally couldn't

The biggest upside to leveling the playing field for power and toughness is that you can immediately break that parity and have the biggest bears on the battlefield

Discard was quickly thrown out and replaced with direct damage, mainly to keep purple from playing like a traditional blue-black control deck (ironically, this made it play somewhat like blue-red, the two colors that mix to create purple, but this was a coincidence)