Since the new Prismatic Evolutions set is mostly full of reprints, the only new card people care about is
Budew. Budew is a broken and annoying card that I think would have been better off left in the drafts, but now we have to suffer turn 1 Item lock. It’s been nice having freedom from turn 1 Item lock for so long, I had forgotten what it felt like.
At the very least, each player will have one turn to play Items before Budew can start attacking, so it’s unlikely to make you brick completely. Slower decks that can easily pivot Budew into the Active Spot on turn 1 are the most obvious benefactors. Now that Budew becomes a widespread threat, I expect non-Item setup methods, such as
Technical Machine: Evolution, to become more popular. Interestingly, decks like...
