I can see this being played a lot, to be honest
When Pokemon USA took over in 2003, they continued to use galaxy holofoil up until 2011's Call of Legends
But if people were FFLing with that card in their Zombie decks and it suddenly becomes a Human, you may be faced with either disrupting their decks or a recommission
According to Masuda, If we were to bring Pokmon to iPad or mobile or smartphones or anything, I think there would need to be some sort of problem it would be solving, not just that it would be porting over old games, for example." Masuda goes on to explain that he feels the Nintendo 3DS is the best platform for Pokmon right now, but he doesnt entirely rule out the possibility that there could be a Pokmon game on mobile someday
There's also a system known as the "Wonder Pick" system
During the second combat damage step, Markov Blademaster assigns one damage to Melira, Melira in her turn assigns 2 damage to the Blademaster