rayquaza pokemon card full art Shining Legends Shining #56 attach a basic Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon Rayquaza VMAX #218 EXTENDED ART

Cards that cheat creatures into play are also useful

#15 Grapple with the Past Emrakul does not grant wishes

And, without some substitutions, the starter deck can't stand alone against competitive custom decks either

Here, my primary concern isn't speculators or collectors but the poor college kid on Reddit trying to put together a Modern deck that ends up with fake Mox Opals off eBay, or the new player who thinks they are getting a good deal on some Modern staples to build their collection off Craigslist and hasn't played enough Magic to realize the cards are fake

A rare card thats also a playset staple in a popular format has extreme value

Practically all the raised foil cards are up year-over-year, though many of the less-popular ones sank this month as their value flowed into cards like Chatterfang