Mortality Spear Four mana to destroy a nonland permanent is quite expensive, but 2 is a steal
So then you have to think about whether you want to commit to the board to force them out of developing their hand, or whether you think the card you want to deploy is too important for you to jam right into counter magic
I just used the CT scanning service from industrial-inspection on a couple of my heavy booster packs and discovered a Charizard in one of them. The pack, listed in June 2025 for $30,000, is marked as short crimp and confirmed shadowless, both traits consistent with the earliest print runs of Pokemon cards
Standard sleeves fit most trading cards, but variations exist for smaller (Japanese sized cards) or oversized cards (like Magic Vanguard)
The combo relied on casting multiple copies of this red spell and its brother Unexpected Windfall, and it would generate an insane number of Treasures that can be exploited with Goldspan Dragon to cast multiple spells on a single turn and chain Time Warp effects in the form of Alrund's Epiphany
