Not only that, it showed the face of the Gym Leader in the bottom right hand corner, again, something WOTC has never done before, making the cards look very different to the previous sets
This is extra strong if you have one Witness on the battlefield with another spell recursion creature
Geosurge is still good enough to drop a big finisher (Inferno Titan, Wurmcoil Engine, maybe Balefire Dragon if you want to get cute) on turn 4, but that requires having both the enabler and the big creature in your starting 10 -- and remember that contemporary mono-red doesn't really have filtering or card draw
The value of the cards starting from the bottom looks like this: Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Face Cards The face cards, or court cards as they were known previously, represent the cards from 11 to 13
In order to do that, you must pick a deck from three starter packs of cards based on Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur and travel to the eight card clubs and defeat their leaders
The Energy Burn and Fire Spin setup is a tribute to Base Set, and by 2008 standards the card was a slow Stage 2 attacker, not a competitive answer