pokemon sword and shield booster box & Shield: Astral Radiance Each booster pack contains 10 cards Pokemon TCG: Sword & Shield

If you really want to include that favorite Pokmon, you can do everything in your power to make it shine, which is sometimes impossible due to legality in the Standard format

Its just a neat collection of no nonsense cards that provide a good glimpse at the lightly scary side of Pokemon

You might stumble across a lesser-known Japanese exclusive that you didnt realize existed, and then spend hours tracking it down on auction sites

It can allow decks to pop-off quicker, which hopefully does the job of balancing the metagame, and not just walling out archetypes completely in the same way a card like Fury did in Modern (nuking mana dorks and other go-wide decks for no mana)