When I know that my Pod deck will Pod, then I can more reliably build around it as a Commander player
It could be for some, but with a limited card set and a background that makes the cards themselves a bit less legible, it wont be for everyone
If you put down a Basic Pokmon and your opponent needs to reshuffle, each time they reshuffle you get to draw a card from your deck before the first turn starts
Ultimately, the change that was made on MTG Arena is that Geological Appraiser now costs five mana instead of four
Also known as error cards, misprints are quite rare in the Pokmon TCG, but they have happened, and still do, occasionally, when some parameter or other gets set very slightly incorrectly on a given print run
The types seem random as this mechanic cares about a supertype, regular type, and subtype