pokemon scarlet and violet card & Destined Rivals Sleeved Booster Pack Terawatts of electricity crash down from the sky in a tropical paradise *Japanese* Pokemon Black Bolt Booster

Killing creatures by reducing their toughness to or below 0 (giving them -X/-X, in other words) is a deeply black mechanic

Wrath of God 52 Cards It was hard to play a creature deck in early competitive Magic

They excel at making Pokmon look like "living trophies" in high-rarity slots

This justification from @TheZachkAttack on X makes decent sense: his punches continue to gain power as long as he carries the momentum, but once he runs out of momentum (land drops) he starts to stumble and ends up weaker because of the overfocus on power. In other words, land drops are indicating adrenaline and momentum, and bouncing lands back is a sort of cooldown or downside to leaning into aggression

Darkness type Pokmon cards have a resistance to Psychic types and were weak to Fighting, but this was switched to Grass during that same Sword and Shield rebalance