first edition machoke pokemon card [1st Edition] #34 Prices | Base Set Strikes Back Pokemon Dark Machoke Trading Card

Designer Notes: Play lands, repeatedly double Tifas power, and swing in for massive damage

TCG have unique effects

Unleash a firestorm of power with Mega Blaziken-EX, or get rough, tough, and mega muddy with Mega Swampert-EX

It wont attack but acts as a wall for your opponent to ram into

And for this card, you cant get much more on-the-nose than a haiku about dragonflies on a card called Emerald Dragonfly. The interesting thing about haiku is that we assume its an ancient form of poetry, but its really only a few centuries old, drawing its origin from longer works called hokku in the late 17th century

During the unprecedented covid-related lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, many people, faced with both newfound time on their hands and a need for entertainment, returned to collecting Pokmon cards