Their math-centered strategy builds up over time, with each round of monsters getting you more cards to work with and setting up for the next level, building ultimately to their massive Fusion Monster, who slashes the opponents Life Points in half with every attack
Aura Sphere takes three fighting energies to use and does 100 damage to the opposing Pokemon, but the real draw is that it also does 30 damage to a Pokemon on your opponents bench
But, this is the absolute cheapest version of the effect that requires no additional synergies or chance or anything
Lightning type Iron Hands ex has 230 HP and two Attacks Arm Press (costing two Lightning energy and one Colorless) and the hilariously named Amp You Very Much (which costs one Lightning energy and three Colorless)
Things have changed the more my friends have peeled off of it, leaving me playing a soul-crushing collect-a-thon where the luck of the draw is rarely in my favor
You dont accidentally want to let gold go for cheap