family pokemon card game Sword & Shield and Pikachu V Deck (60 Cards) x1 Gimmighoul | Paradox Rift |

This red creature is currently the best incentive you have for playing shaman-typal decks, and one of the best for wizard decks, too

It can straight up kill two things, either in combat resulting from the counter or because you randomly happen to have an enchantment like a Courser of Kruphix and you just die

Thats a nice incentive to build a -1/-1 counter matters deck, and together with nice incentives like Nest of Scarabs, youll have an army of tokens at your disposal

Pikachu also has a weakness, which in this case means it will take twice as much damage from Fighting type Pokemon, and it has no resistance value, which means it won't take a reduced amount of damage from any other type

It was the first of the cost variance modal mechanisms and was a very welcome addition at the time