Higher-level monsters require sacrificing monsters, which creates a different requirement
Last year, a 1995 Pokemon Japanese Topsun Charizard Blue Back card, also with PSA 10 Gem Mint grading, sold for $493,230 by Goldin Auctions.
In short collectors buy with their eyes, players buy with the meta
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Packing board wipes or sacrifice edicts or Arcane Lighthouse into Commander decks that otherwise wouldnt want them just to be able to deal with Inkwell Leviathan is also not exactly what I would define as fun. Ward opens up the possibility for more counterplay, even if the ward cost of on The Tarrasque is basically insurmountable in most cases
For instance kyoko umemoto had a style that I loved, but totally not appropriate for fluffy/furry characters like flareon or arcanine imo, but arcanine placed higher due to better background