Even though the color of Nidoran's inner ear changes between the rainbow and silver foil, that does not necessarily differentiate it from being a rainbow vs silver foil, since the colors can also change with the different ray patterns
Cost reduction is nice and allows you to chain many spells once you've established a board, but does little to represent Magnus's raw magic potential
While there's no Dark Depths/Thespian's Stage combo in Modern, that won't stop brewers from looking for the next lands deck with cards like this one
You then - crucially - get to decide whether you want to play that card without paying for it, or place it into your hand
Sequential numbering and modern set codes make identification definitive
Even with its special illustration, this is surprising, but the usefulness of the card must be extraordinary in the Pokmon Trading Card Game to reach such a high worth.