Their primary purpose is to pay the costs for your Pokmon's actions
Lets take a look at how this mechanic works, what some of the best cards are, and discuss why skulk may not have gotten as much love as other keyword abilities
Its also gotten stricter over time, according to SGC grader Derek Grady, who told Sports Collector Digest in 2019 that In the early days of PSA, cards that were graded an 8 for the most part now if you cracked them out and resubmitted, they would grade lower. Nowadays, PSA uses the half-point system that many other services in the card grading industry also favor, which can be broken down like this: PSA 10 / Gem-Mint (GEM-MT): a virtually perfect card, according to PSAs website
Set up practice scenarios: if your Pokemon has 80 HP and is poisoned, how many turns until it's knocked out
Shows like this bring together three generations of collectors: adults who grew up in the 90s, competitive tabletop gamers, and kids opening their first booster packs