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The Frostfang gives your attacking creatures deathtouch, instantly making your opponents reconsider how they want to block

So it seems the price spike is purely down to numbers: the fact that demand for the card has more-or-less doubled, while supply has remained the same

"Once offers started to come in from collectors with money, like Cassius Marsh I started to think it was the real deal." Marsh, the owner and CEO of trading card buying and selling company Cash Cards Unlimited, was among the first to put significant money behind the card, placing a bounty of $500,000 on it

This philosophy translates into the cards themselves

Scene Boxes are the best way to pick up the new cards coming in the second wave of releases, depicting epic scenes from the books and giving players all-new cards to play with

If we reprinted a vanilla creature, it wouldn't matter that you couldn't read the text