The resurgence of Pokmon as a pop culture phenomenon, alongside the popularity of the trading card game, has made cards highly sought after
To activate the effect of Evilswarm Exciton Knight, the opponent must have more combined cards in their hand and on their board than the player activating the effect, but this is often trivial if players are using this effect when going second
This card, however, is not like those cards
At the time of So Paulo Regionals, in such a Mew-dominated format, Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX was still a very new idea, and as a result there was hardly any Manaphy and only a few Dunsparce
S9 Star Birth offers something no other Sword & Shield set provides: the combination of the Charizard V SA (103/100) at 42,800, the first-ever Arceus VSTAR debut, and 27 total secret rares providing the widest pull variety in any regular expansion of the era
If your intentions is to negate the activation of a card (as in flipped a Spell/Trap face-up or playing it from the hand) you must say activates a card. You also use this when you say that a card or effect can only be activated once per turn