ludicolo pokemon card 037/159 - Holo Rare - TCG: Journey Together Placeholder Image Provided Ludicolo 007/094, Phantasmal Flames 2025

I find that matte sleeves offer the best shuffle feel, allowing the cards to mix together smoothly without sliding all over the place

While life gain is only any use against the agro decks for the most part (as in you wouldn't feel compelled to play any life gain in your average deck if the field was all control and combo) it is often worth including as an alternative to lowering your curve and therefore average power level

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Stain the Mind is the only mono-black, non-restricted Cranial Extraction effect in Pioneer, a format where combo seems to be fairly single-card-centric and not super-redundant

Given the power creep of attacks, HP and abilities in the decade since this Reshiram card was introduced, its definitely not a Pokmon that feels particularly competitive any more

(And thats not even close to how expensive this same card is about to get) Mega Dragonite ex Gold I was very surprised when the reintroduction of gold cards caused such clamor toward the end of last year