But the first English Pokmon cards were actually distributed about a month earlier, in December 1998 , through a product called the Pokmon Demo Game Pack (sometimes called the 2-Player Demo Game Pack)
(It cant be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Enchanted creature gets +1/+2
The machine is in motion. Tezzeret Illustrated by Eric Deschamps Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Legal Historic Legal Modern Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp
So it wouldn't be that big of a surprise for there to be a functional deck in Standard that could play Zirda as its companion, although I'm not sure just how good Zirda would be in such a deck
The evoke cycle are all Elementals, and though not all of them are amazing in Commander (and for more, check our set review), some of them are pretty decent, and even potentially playable in Canlander, and are all cube material