Medium A moderate pickup for the set Where it sits in the price lifecycle Release Hype Post-Release Correction Stable / Reprint Risk End-of-Print Spike Out-of-Print Maturation Buy timingFusion Strike is out of print, so supply only tightens over time
YGO on the other hand, has thousands of different characters, a lot of them very obscure to the general audience
Another example of this is Skred Red, which has an average CMC of 2.56almost exactly the same as Jeskai Controlbut is only playing 23 lands
Example 1: Currently listed tier 1 explorer deck Naya Winota has 4 mythic and 44 rare
It was after my second game with Yarok, where I assembled infinite mana in barely any time with Deadeye Navigator/Peregrine Drake and cast Villainous Wealth for X = 1,000,000, that my friend observed: Wow, its almost like getting two triggers for every enters-the-battlefield effect is broken. And they were right
If you are buying this box for around $100, then your pack price is $6.25, which is close to the market value of these packs anyway