Steve and I designed the game to be relatively easy for someone to pick up if they've never played a TCG (trading card game), Ryan Miller While the game is built on simple core rules, how advanced the game becomes is really up to its players, with Miller pointing out that advanced strategies emerge if you want to find them
All damage from meta-friendly Pokmon like Lapras VMAX, Eternetus VMAX, and Centiskorch VMAX is prevented
Some enthusiasts focus on building competitive decks for tournaments, while others are passionate about completing sets or collecting cards featuring their favourite Pokmon
Sometimes this sees play in donate decks, but Act of Authority is mostly a blink card
Worst case however this gets killed or bounced and they get their Gearhulk/Titan etc back plus another EtB trigger and you lose
However, the store has limited the number of packs each person can buy