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What took Base Set Charizard twenty-five years to accumulate, a Japanese McDonald's promo achieved in a fraction of that time
Once sleeved no one will be able to tell the difference from a real Magic card
Old Gnawbone, Kokusho, the Evening Star, and Galazeth Prismari are examples of commanders that happen to be dragons but arent great dragon commanders since they have no inherent synergy with other dragons
This number can often vary wildly, for the same reasons I stated that TCGplayer shifted from using a mean to a median calculation for their average