pokemon cards dragonite gx Full Art - 67/70 - Dragon Majesty When your Pokémon DRAGONITE GX 028/053 PSA GEM

The prototypes that I have made that felt the closest to real playing cards used this type of card stock and were placed in sleeves (see below)

This is often referred to as a 0-card combo since you dont need to have any specific cards in your hand to power out a win

This is also the set's one and only use of the devotion mechanic

These guys are at opposite ends of the timeline Barthes working back in the middle of last century and Cohn publishing now and each have their own focuses Barthes mainly on novels (in his narratology anyway) and Cohn on comics but there's some notable similarities that, without getting too bogged down in the specifics of their methods, we can use to make sense of the Story Spotlights

(Perhaps you're playing a tribe full of cards like Goblin Ringleader and you're more than happy to trade one for one.) But that's a good baseline to start with