Its the best way to deal with threats before they hit the board, stopping creatures ETB effects and preventing a player from getting an activation off of their planeswalker before you can kill it in combat
some examples of actual cards from the deck included "The Trail of Tears", "The hard working Mexican", and "Helplessly giggling at the mention of Hutus and Tutsis"
With Arbok, you can prevent poisoned cards from being switched out and deal high damage with Smogmog
7 Pokemon Types And Energy Types Do Not Include Too Many Types Of Energy In The Deck Each turn, the player has the option to attach one energy to one of their Pokemon
Creatures lose all abilities
Regardless, its an interesting kindred ninja enabler, making itself or another creature unblockable and giving a bonus for ninjutsu with Scry and getting larger itself