A commander like last week's Urabrask, Heretic Praetor or today's mono-White Zoologist can be a real challenge because you aren't being led by the hand down an obvious build path
"The problem with tournaments, however, is only the 'Magic' sets that have come out in the past two years are legal in tournaments
Thats obviously some great combo potential, but boy is that not enough
It's the same 200-odd cards that everyone else can access and, more importantly, only one or two of the rare ones are required for you to build a highly competitive deck around - after less than a week of checking in daily, I had enough for at least one, and probably with a bit of targeted play two or three, of the main competitive decks already
Youll need several of these in each deck youll need to have one in your opening hand of seven cards, so many of your Pokemon cards are generally Basic Pokemon