For cards you'll rotate or sell in the near term, the difference is marginal
Which Pokemon are available for the player to use in Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver
Youll also be able to amass a pretty big army over the course of the game
This works very strong in Pinger decks with tappers that deal damage like Kamahl, Pit Fighter or Prodigal Sorcerer
Jesper, if you read this: Do you still have the original
So you can potentially see unhealthy combos like that arising again with things like Shiftry (NXD 72/99) from Next Destinies, or Vileplume from Ancient Origins, or Exeggutor (PLF 5/116) from Plasma Freeze, which are all just incredible Grass-type Pokemon that are held back by the fact that they're Stage 1 or Stage 2, which is a good way to cripple a card -- or to balance a card, I should say -- to give it a really strong ability, but you make it a Stage 1 or Stage 2, and it's slower