girafarig pokemon card value miscut your opponents Active Pokemon is now Paralyzed 30 Girafarig - 58/111 Neo Genesis

A lot of the tax-to-attack pieces are also enchantments, so why not put them together

The additional land you play has to be from your hand, so you can't play a land from your graveyard (Crucible of Worlds) or the top of your library (Courser of Kruphix)

The main benefit for splashing is we get access to all the best noncreature hate cards like Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Gaddock Teeg

As we entered the latest boom period for the Pokmon card market, sets would start to see a much smaller dip, and explode upwards in price fairly rapidly not long after they came out

So whats next

It provides reliable removal, protection, and control tools, often supported by stable mana bases and the best dual lands in MTG