Its Poke Power is also useful for Energy acceleration
The Charmander line is the most popular and iconic starter line in the entire Pokemon franchise (something well certainly see pop up again later) so seeing both Shiny Charmeleon and Shiny Charmander shouldnt be that big of a surprise
These characteristics are used only if the permanent is in play and only if the permanent has been flipped
Key cards: Daze, Meddling Mage, Liliana of the Veil, Stifle Cards to consider removing: Preordain, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Ancient Tomb Cards to consider adding: Pact of Negation, Boseiju, Who Shelters All, Spell Pierce, Flusterstorm, and Pithing Needle, Defense Grid, Leyline of Sanctity Sneak and Show: I used to think that this was a good matchup, then after getting thoroughly stomped by Brad Nelson when I first picked up the deck, I figured it wasnt nearly as good as I thought it was
Dark Patch not only accelerates energy from the discard pile, but can also serve as a pseudo energy recovery option
Traditionally, the way that Archenemy has worked with 60-card decks is that the archenemy has 40 life and each of the players has 20