cost Play Event cards for immediate effects before discarding them Play Stage cards for ongoing benefits Use card abilities When you play a card (Character, Event, or Stage), pay its cost by returning that many DON
Alela, Artful Provocateur balances the game-slowing effects of cards like Aura of Silence and Torpor Orb with a flight of aggressive Faerie tokens to close the game out while your opponents stumble around with a hand twisted behind their back
In most formats, that part does nothing
There's no real rhyme or reason to which cards I picked other than they had interesting stories I thought of easily while writing this column
It is a reminder of how underexplored this cozy side of Pokmon really is, and how compelling it can be for fans
but for the most part, they weren't doing it for me