These decks play lots of small creatures (sometimes making use of token or "go-wide" strategies), and use pump spells, board wipes, or exile effects to help out in the late game
As a top-end threat for Affinity in Standard, Salvation Engine looks like the real deal
Volcanion has 130 HP and can deal 80 Damage, +80 more if it has a Water-type Energy attached to it
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Like most Pokmon cards, the value of Light Machamp depends on a few consistent factors: its rarity, the printing and finish (regular or foil), its physical condition, and the set it was printed in (Neo Destiny)
So to have an even stronger version of that, I think that kind of got a lot of people excited. While it may not seem like an important part of designing a card game, Creatures does spend time crafting the story of each set, but because cards can only convey so much information through images and single lines of flavor text, its not at the forefront