So, when you think to yourself whether youll want to collect Pokmon cards, the question that you should ask yourself is is this fun?
His basic version has his signature ally compensate for some of his weaker stats, which starts already in play at the beginning of each scenario, to be able to fight and investigate from turn 1, while his parallel version is a bit more specialised in enemy management, but has such a versatile ability and broad deckbuilding (on top of better base stats compared to his basic counterpart) to still be able to do a lot of different things at once
While in Commander that might not be as high of a cost, in constructed formats like Modern and Legacy, it can be near impossible to do while staying in the game
Discard a bunch of Mad Party Pokmon with Ultra Ball or other discard engines, then move a Ditto to the active position for a surprise attack
Cards have a dark orange swirl with a black, portal-like oval in the center