They are also important to remember because your friends will give you strange looks if you try to tell them you cast "the thingy on his whatsamajig, but he countered it with a canoodle" and that's why you lost
For example, the first main set of 2021 was Sword & Shield Battle Styles and its mascots were the Urshifus
That attack is incredibly powerful earlier in the game before your opponent Evolves all of their Pokmon, and it gives you time to ramp to a thick stack of Energy cards in your discard pile to hit hard with Ceruledge ex
Every time a dragon you control gets hit, this card lets it reflect that damage back at any non-dragon target
Grist, the Hunger Tide This scary looking planeswalker card is actually a cute bug - who, yes, did lead swarms of locusts to destroy the food supply of untold thousands, but only because she didn't know that humans had feelings