Blaine Theme Deck from 2000 Gym Challenge Now lets take things off the beaten track a little bit Gym Challenge is a hugely popular WOTC era set from the year 2000, containing Pokemon that belonged to legendary trainers Sabrina, Koga, Giovanni and Blaine
Embercleave has the same endemic problem that many of the cards on this list have - It's a game ending card that almost completely invalidates the previous turns of the game, boiling everything down to a "do you have it or do you not" moment that often ends the game on the spot
As far as I am aware these were only printed in the United Kingdom and adopt a lot of the changes that later were used on the post Base Set Decks
In the last few years, there have been multiple shops in Croatia who sold Pokemon TCG, but most of them were short lived, until the hype died
The power has been shifted from rare cards to ultra-rares (which happen to be mostly Basic Pokmon, with a few VMAX), and the complexity has been drastically lowered