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The gimmick behind them is that they can be played with life instead of mana, a strategy that allows for some immensely broken combos due to all the mana-hoarding one could do

Skipping Combat Cards Combat-skipping cards are very similar to fog effects in that both cards revolve around denying your opponent a turns worth of combat damage, except the ability to make them skip their combat prevents them from ever attacking

These proved extremely popular, and textured cards have been a major part of Pokmon since then

Looking at this list we can see the top 40 cards by price, taken from Scrye #9 released September 1995