We always want to make opening booster packs the most fun experience possible, and we love the excitement that these cards add to cracking open a booster pack
Ishihara-san, President of The Pokmon Company, loved tabletop/card games and wanted to create a card game which would act as a Physical Pokdex and give players another way to experience the Pokmon brand, said Pokmon TCG director Atsushi Nagashima told Evening Standard in 2020 about the idea behind Pokemon cards
Illustration wise, the 7-8th gen era had a lot of bangers and the Tag Team Aritas (and some by other artists) are great, theyd probably be some of my favorites Pokemon cards if the layout and holo was more to my taste
Then you can trim down the cards you don't want - for example if your deck is working off of death triggers you may want to use destroy effects instead of exile, to get those valuable death triggers
Players would often say things like "I know it's a red card, and I can even describe the art, but I just can't remember the name!" The four traits are our solution to that tip-of-the-tongue feeling