In a usual Pokmon TCG battle, players would duke it out on their own rubber playmats (or any available surface) but here you get a rigid, fold-out game board that lays out specific card placements to make the process of playing as seamless as possible - even going so far as to include a what you can do during your turn box on each players side, to make sure both players never feel lost while learning the ropes
Let me run you through them
Domri, Chaos Bringer Domri, Chaos Bringer looks ridiculous in Limited and Standard, but he's a lot tamer in Commander
Not just the artwork or the Pokemon's name, but every tiny piece of text, every symbol, every marking
Part of that is due to the fact that as more cards get printed, and more of those get banned, then the list of banned cards obviously gets longer