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With all that being said, the 1st edition of this card can run you almost $400 in NM condition

many TCGs would kill for a card like this

Its not that it wasnt true (it clearly was) but if you were really only thinking about the monetary value of Pokmon , you would have kept everything in mint condition rather than play with it all

It even has trample, so when this bad boy hits the field, theres little a player can have that can stand in its way

While later expansions would retcon most of MTG to happen in a fantasy plane called Dominaria, clearly the older sets are still not really sure about the identity of the game in general, leading to the designers to just put in what they thought looked cool