Often you can't play your red deck because you don't have the one drop threats or you can't play the white because you don't have a finisher
Thats all thanks to one card, Nihilego, whose ability makes Poison tick damage do an extra 10 damage each turn and it stacks, so with two Nihilego on the bench, each turn will see a Poisoned Pokmon take 30 points of damage
Scott's call of Twilight Drover serves a similar purpose as Fresh Meat: If Emmara isn't around or tokens otherwise find their way to the graveyard, you have a way of refreshing the battlefield with another wave of creatures
Pokmon Stadium underwent a bizarre, but necessary piece of censorship when being brought overseas
This actually plays nicely with a subtheme we'll look at in the next section, and you sacrifice an Island to add two counters to this and then add them instant speed which can be a combat trick to save a blocking dork from a Giant Growth effect or just a bigger power