According to Andy Gose, senior director of Media Production at The Pokmon Company International, Ava will have a partner Pokmon in Oddish the adorable grass Pokmon - and will derive support from her family, community and new-found friendship in order to become a great Pokmon Trading Card Game player
With Temur Tawnyback you can skip the blue pip and pay instead
At its heart, the deck is a mid-range, tempo Mono Black deck and the ideal play strategy is pretty simple: Cast early Sinkholes to disrupt your opponents mana base or put them a turn behind
The question if it was ever intended to be included in packs is not completely clear, but the discovery of E4 member styluspt that the cards was actually advertised to be in the set in a Japanese Trainers Magazine as well as on early concept designs of Jungle booster packs certainly makes this appear likely (see PIKACHU 1ST ED JUNGLE BLACK STAR PROMO - WAS IT INTENTIONAL
The deck also played a bevy of disruption with a full four copies of Energy Removal 2, along with some number of Battle Frontier and Cursed Stone
As we mentioned earlier, the SIR version of Latias matches up with the IR Latios to form a larger image, with the main difference between the two being the distinct Special Illustration Rare texture on the Latias ex card