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You can take damage easily, your opponent will try to lower your hand and not do big swings

Similarly, had I on turn 1 attached a water energy to my benched Staryu instead of my active Goldeen, I would have been prevented from progressing when I ended the turn instead of when I attached the energy card

Once the countdown is over, the game ends in an official draw