Set your sample directly as a card count, or specify it by turn with a play/draw toggle the starting player skips their first-turn draw (rule 103.8a), so you have seen one fewer card on the play than on the draw
There are also no negative secondary effects of this attack, meaning that trainers can use it over and over to break through almost any defense and lay waste to the opposing team with remarkable ease before they can even react.
Linking up with friends to trade (and battle!) was seen as a large part of the games success and this stellar success soon saw the game spun off into different areas: manga, anime, toys and of course, the Pocket Monsters Card Game
Is it focused entirely on Clues, or is it a hybrid with Landers, Food, Treasures, etc
So Sand Scout for example would let you search for any land (Gaea's Cradle, maybe?), as all lands in your library would be deserts