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They serve to give your side of the board tempo by allowing your creatures to attack (removing defenders), giving you more time to set up the board (removing attackers/expensive creatures), and allow for combat tricks (saving your creatures after damage is on the stack

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

Utility & Defensive Energy: These cards provide a benefit in addition to providing Energy

Now winning through combat damage gives way to combo kills the further up the brackets you go, but I can see Cloud decks rocking well in Core and Modified Brackets