Japanese Pokmon cards are hailed as the gold standard for collectors, thanks to their superior print quality, exclusive designs, and early releases that leave English sets scrambling to catch up
While exceptionally expensive, there are quite a few ways in black to generate tons of mana very easily, making it not too difficult to cast later in a game
Neither of them is Balduvian Horde, which hilariously was the card that players back in 1996 thought was the most broken because a 5/5 for four mana was super far above the curve for creatures of the era, even with its "discard a card" drawback
The rarity of Shiny Pokemon is marked by a rainbow-colored octagram-like symbol in the bottom-left corner
You go to game two, and you take a tempo hit to make sure you have a Pyroblast ready to cover the dreaded Drain but they just return a tapped Island to hand and Daze that one