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Starting with a card in the former category, this Yellow A alternate art version of the Shaymin EX from Roaring Skies has jumped from $31 at the start of the year to $66 - and some copies have sold on TCGPlayer for as much as $160

R&D spent a lot of time on this (and I'll get more into the nitty-gritty of how design structure has changed when we get to previews for Murders at Karlov Manor )

If heads put a card from your discard pile on top of your deck

In most cases, the Ward cost is mana, but in some cases it can be paying life, discarding cards, or even taking poison counters

Having solid uncommons and commons helps even things out a bit, but even if you open way above average in terms of lower-rarity cards, it won't really make up for missing out on good mythics or foils because the good lower-rarity cards just aren't as valuable as the mythics and foils

Where Do We Go From Here