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With both cards in play, you still need an Equipment and one other artifact in order to set up this combo, plus a way to give Crackdown Construct evasion

Watch official announcements before investing heavily in any older standard set

The critical difference is pull rates: JPN SAR odds are approximately 1/27 packs versus 1/67-91 in English Ascended Heroes making JPN boxes 2-3x more generous

Team Rocket Grunt ( Shining Revelry ) and Guzzlord ex ( Extradimensional Crisis ) can remove 1 Energy from the opponent's Active Pokmon for each heads they flip, up until they get tails

With just 10 packs split across a variety of expansions, the pull rates will likely be very slim

And since most effects in this deck only place one +1/+1 counter at a time, Branching Evolution ends up playing out like a redundant copy of Hardened Scales for thrice the price