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Slowpoke S 219/190 I put it in the sleeve right after opening the package, so I think it is almost flawless from a layman's point of view

Coating Metal Energy does solve a piece of that equation, however if the Centiskorch player is including a copy of Giratina in their decks, then they can respond to Coating Metal Energy on opposing Metal-type Pokemon

Part of the struggle to understand these cards is due to phrasing that was not yet formalized in the official rules

The most important of these aspects is that it is cheap allowing you to fight back a bit with useful things to do earlier in the game against the tempo wars of the cheap agro decks