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In 2022, a first edition base set Charizard card sold for $420,000 at auction, but this is an extreme outlier
Taking damage from it doesnt make much of a difference, but blocking it requires losing a relatively strong creature
Phasing, banding, land animation, land blink , stickers, buyback, color-hacking, Eldrazi Processors, Bloodrush, and splice onto Arcane are all examples of decks Ive constructed by investigating specific cards and taking them to their logical conclusion
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