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Experimenting is one of the biggest ways we find how a Pokemon is viable or not and tends to lead to new meta trends - the rise of PixiBoom STail and new sets like mixed Dnite can be alluded to that. The difference between heat / a new set that has potential to be viable and garbage is quite...