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Even when playing multiple colors, it can be in your best interest to center your deck primarily around one or two colors, and be a little bit less reliant on the rest

Luckily this is pretty easy to achieve in blue

Not only is it in an ideal color identity for birds, it also rewards you with a triggered ability that scales up the more birds you swing with

Instead of having an intermediate step, you can use Rare Candy to skip over the Stage 1 Pokmon entirely, meaning that Pokmon like Charizard ex can enter play one turn quicker than usual

On the flipside, they can also be countered by spells like Stifle, Tale's End, and Disallow