He encourages players to swing at someone other than you, but the card basically helps your opponents draw cards and doesn't keep them from swinging everything but a 1/1 token at you and still reaping the benefit of Ludevic's card draw ability
and Smash, which can respectively deal two or three damage to a single character, Grab Your Sword is an effective way of whittling down enemy characters willpower before finishing them off with another attack or challenge - leaving the field open for you to quest your way to victory
Underworld Connections Underworld Connections allows you to enchant any land for 2 black and colorless mana with the ability to tap, pay a life, and draw a card
We wont dive into the nitty-gritty of each of these, and if youd like, you can read up on their finer details in a dedicated Pokmon card guide
They help Locke to take a stand, and later on one of them - Mog - joins the party properly during the World of Ruin section of the game