You may pay alternative costs such as emerge rather than the card's mana cost
Released in 2008's Great Encounters, the Pokmon was so critical to the meta, if you didn't have a Claydol to stick in your deck, your opponent was guaranteed to run rings around you
I believe this is valid because silver border, now acorn, gives the entire team, design, play, world building, art direction, marketing and everything in between, artists, players, and article writers a chance to go out to the very edges of what the game could do
This might not sound like a lot, but it means on your first turn you'll already be up a land, and you'll have mana open for a counterspell or piece of removal before you even get started
Astonish : 40 Choose a random card from your opponent's hand
destroy 1 monster on the targeted monster's owner's field, and if you do, Special Summon that targeted monster to that field in Defense Position