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Pidgeotto isnt overwhelmingly useful, but Pidgey offers a handy deck search, and Pidgeot ex furthers this, adding some damage and Stadium control into the mix
Also similar to lands, one of the big reasons that Commander 2018 was so poorly received is that the decks were severely lacking in good colorless cards (in fact, for half of the 2018 decks, the only colorless card worth mentioning was Sol Ring, which has been in every Commander deck since the start of the series)
Print quality is generally considered superior in Japanese products
this turn, this card can attack your opponent directly, but other monsters cannot attack
There's a ton of other random types of counters out there, such as charge (Vivid Marsh), experience (Ezuri, Claw of Progress), age (Glacial Chasm), level (Lighthouse Chronologist), and so much more