If the the cards in a box are worth more than the sealed box, you can bet that people will be opening boxes like crazy, which in turn increases the supply of the cards in the set and brings down the prices of the cards
He combos off if you so much as look in his direction with any number of different cards
How Do Split Cards Work
Meren of Clan Nel Toth The 2nd most played Commander of all time(again, according to EDHREC.com), and it's dominant, and runs the same
Cards like Scavenging Ooze target a card in a graveyard and not you as a player
Meanwhile, I could not help but wonder about the perfect storm that created Gardevoir/Gallade: no suitable Psychic Pokmon to counter with (especially given the +30 weakness), Scramble and Double Rainbow Energy were still legal, some potential counters were rotated out while others were delayed for release, and so on