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The Pikachu Illustrator is often referred to as the holy grail of Pokmon cards due to its extreme rarity and high value of over $5 million

it goes into tempo strategies that want to just land a threat and protect it without worrying about smaller blockers

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Then Brudiclad makes you a myr token, giving you twelve tokens that can be transformed into copies of the 5/5 Thunderhulk

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The deck also contains mana ramp and card draw artifacts to maintain resources