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Careful selection transforms an average deck into a competitive powerhouse

Seeing as it is one of the oldest cards in Yu-Gi-Oh

Put another way, any Alpha deck with, say, 15 Mox Sapphire/Black Lotus and 15 Ancestral Recall, is probably a better variance reducer than a deck with anything else, even just Black Lotus and Timetwisters

The kicker is that it literally has kicker, letting you pay one and a red, one and a green, or both to have it enter the battlefield with two or four +1/+1 counters on it, raising the cost but also growing its size to allow you to steal bigger things

So, what makes certain Pokmon cards so valuable