I use Intangible Virtue, Dramatic Finale, and Teysa Karlov (EDH Teysa, anyone?) to turn those nasty tokens into beat sticks you can throw around the board willy-nilly
If they want that card they draft it and replace it with a face down card from the stack
More than a simulation of collecting real Pokmon cards, this is a simulation of battling with them, something that surprisingly few card-collecting kids actually do
Broadside Bombardiers Broadside Bombardiers has a fine rate for a creature, as a 2/2 with menace and haste for 3
In a very loose comparion you could say Counterspell was the Vindicate equivalent while other counterspells would represent cards like Abrupt Decay and Desert Twister
Pokemon Accessibility: I hadnt played Pokmon in years, so I was pleasantly surprised to find how easy it was to pick back up