Again, mentioning the example of Pikachu Illustrator as a card from a promotion of a 1998 drawing contest, cards with promotional value and restricted / limited events can indeed make the product more expensive and make is worth the cost of graduation investment
Would we even have Rosewaters number one pick, Ravnica , which gave names and personalities to the games 10 different two-color pairings, without Invasion
Bonus activations are the best
cost Play Event cards for immediate effects before discarding them Play Stage cards for ongoing benefits Use card abilities When you play a card (Character, Event, or Stage), pay its cost by returning that many DON
Same goes for Cleopatra and Sokrates
A wrong parallel can make a $2 card look like a $200 card, or the reverse