The Pikachu Illustrator is the clearest example: a PSA 10 sold for $16.5 million, while PSA 9 copies sit around $840,000 and PSA 78 examples fall between roughly $375,000 and $480,000 (CardsnPacks tracks this spread)
in the case of something like lugia vstar, sometimes you WANT to discard cards from your hand i could still see this card seeing play in some anti-meta deck at some point in the future, because the secondary effect can be really good depending on the meta #20 Powering up Dark isn't that hard with Galarian Moltres V (with energy switch) and Dark Patch
With SAR odds at roughly 1-in-6 boxes and the Japan-exclusive Master Ball mirror locked at one random card per box out of 153 possibilities, the math creates scarcity that drives serious value
While you have priority, you can take game actions that interact with other cards or spells on the stack (for example, you could target the planeswalker on the stack with a counterspell)
It is a five-mana creature with 4/3 and an ability that grants flying at the cost of reducing its power
Starting with the most conventional of these new MTG commanders: Winter, Cynical Opportunist leads the golgari graveyard deck, Death Toll
