pokemon generation 1 cards First Partner Illustration Collection (Series 1) 1 Basic Energy gen 1 pokemon card value

This incentivizes you to deal damage to yourself, and even letting your opponents deal damage to you

Mew ex ( Mythical Island ) has Genome Hacking as its main selling point, which costs 3 Energy to copy the opponent's Active Pokmon's attack, letting Mew check opponents with high-cost attacks by using their big attacks before they can

Now, shell force a discard for an opponents effort

On top of this, Unholy Annex naturally plays much better in midrange strategies than controlling ones, and suits Excruciator very well as the card advantage is needed to support a resource-intensive combo and that's before even considering that Excruciator is literally a Demon