In aggressive decks, its particularly useful before combat to shut down your opponents' potential tricksor just finish them off outright if you have enough mana
Card Size is Different Paper Quality difference and Paper Thickness, but this depends on the set too I think, because they may change the paper stock that they use depending on cost of materials you can also ask a Pokemon Professor, they may have insight into fake cards entering the market and be able to give you pointers in spotting fakes
Back in the day, a set with more than 150 cards used to be considered quite the chonker - but if you check out our full list of card totals below, you'll quickly notice it became the norm, from around 2018 onwards, for each new main set to add over 200 unique cards
You could not use Tropical Beach in any Japanese Pokmon Trading Card Game tournaments in 2013
But I built a Cleopatra deck last year and have been consistently revisiting it to tweak it with each new set
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