>>54684663They really should, considering how aids it is to get a stage 2 out. Rare candy + the mon in the same hand is surprisingly hard to pull off and you'll often brick one of the pieces. Besides a supporter there's no way of searching out an item, so if you're needing to research/iono shuffle your hand you have no way to get rare candy other than RNG asspulling it off one of the cards
The stage 1s are all but useless fodder too since they don't make those good, they're just stepping stones. Which is why every evolution deck prefers to run rare candy instead when possible, even gardevoir with the strongest middle stage 1 still runs some rare candy
Either make them stronger, make stage 1s worth or it make it easier to get rare candy combos. Any would considerably help stage 2 evolution decks