mewtwo pokemon card v V-Union Special Collection Box 1 oversize card featuring the star Pokémon V Shadow Metwo V Pokemon Card

If youre playing at higher brackets especially B5 or cEDH youll know how important stack wars can be

Heres an archetype I like Heros Downfall in: Creatures (4) Planeswalkers (3) Lands (27) Spells (27) 1 Last Breath 2 Syncopate 2 Doom Blade 2 Ratchet Bomb 4 Azorius Charm 4 Supreme Verdict 2 Detention Sphere 3 Sphinx's Revelation 3 Far 2 Hero's Downfall 2 Dissolve Sideboard Its not clear if adding black is worth the pain (both from shock lands and from Burning Earth), but it is at least worth exploring

That kind of bad optics comes at a time when the competitive Pokmon TCG landscape is already dealing with a host of other issues

A damaged card can still fetch a handsome sum provided it's rare enough, but a general rule of thumb is that the higher a cards quality is, the higher the price you can ask

Obviously, we can use these words in card titles and flavor text, but could we take it a step further