charizard v pokemon cards - 018/159 - Crown Zenith Captured in a crystal Pokémon TCG S-Chinese Card Sword&Shield

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice

The temptation here is to shave as much as possible on one-drops to reduce the chances of hitting them with Collected Company, but the mana creatures are incredibly important to how these decks function and I would almost never play fewer than eight

However, for the most part, especially when compared to the Amber/Ruby deck, the Emerald/Sapphire Azurite Sea deck can lack a sense of cohesion

Herein lies what I speculate the inclusion of these references to real-world religions stories must have meant to the designers: that these sacred narratives have a place alongside other literature from the past, and not above it or below it, insofar as it remained fair game for use in a fantasy card game