Nowadays, though, abilities can practically do anything, ranging from drawing cards to attaching energy to protecting your benched Pokemon
Triumph of the Hordes and Tainted Strike are also infect cards that often result in one or more players dying from one card, but theyre a little bit off-theme for this list
The biggest innovation that the game did is actually on the social side
The team consisted of Alex Churchill, an independent researcher and board game designer in Cambridge, UK
In a classic best-of-three showdown, the 15-card sideboard serves as a way to adjust your strategy between matches and hopefully sure up any weaknesses you might have to the opponent's combo
You can even attack in a turn and cast it to defend in the next one, killing a few aggressors and gaining life