As values change, things can always fluctuate
The great thing about Alakazam is how they punish opposing Pokemon who require multiple Energy, such as Mewtwo ex or Charizard ex
Play both decks against each other, then combine them to create one bigger deck where pikachu libre and suicune battle side by side
While its true youre going down on life, a dedicated mill deck thats looking to win from the graveyard absolutely would play an effect that said mill a card, if its not a land, lose a life for as much mana and in this case, life as theyre willing to spend
During Mirrodin development (We had already handed off the design file), I was asked to design a card to match Glissa Sunseeker, the hero of the story
A natural weakness of discard decks is running out of steam yourself, but Waste Not helps to counteract the downsides of playing forced discard by providing various forms of card and mana advantage