At the very worst you always get The Spear of Leonidas for free, wherever it may be, and then you get the promise of extra card draw as your equipped creatures deal combat damage
TCG Pocket launched without the ability to do so despite the name of the game and when it did debut, it came with another new currency and restrictive rules around what cards you could trade, enticing you to spend more real-world money on packs, as gacha games are wont to do
Some Secret Rares are competitive must-runs (4-of in the best deck in the format)
Furusawa: In mountaineering terms, the sunset hitting a mountain and making it appear red is called Abendrot. I think that this is a very cool phenomenon in itself, and the red color also perfectly fits Arcanine as a Fire type
Both players can place one basic Pokmon card facedown, this becomes their active Pokmon, plus up to five more basic Pokmon onto their bench
Plains: On the opposite side of the spectrum, white mana represents civilization