Following are some of the things that I do to save money when playing the Pokemon TCG
Banish all "The Planet" cards from your GY, then destroy up to 20 cards in your opponents deck and if you do, half the ATK of your opponents monsters and if your opponent summons monsters, half the ATK of the summoned monsters (These effects last for the rest of this duel)
Deathtouch makes detaching any of our small utility equipment think Mask of Memory, Sword of the Animist, Sword of Hearth and Home into a mini board-wipe
5: Akiri, Fearless Voyager - Zendikar Rising Boros got a good bit of love this year in the form of Akiri, Fearless Voyager
This card doesn't start in your deck but in a special "Command Zone." You can cast your commander from this zone, and if it would die or be exiled, you can return it to the command zone to be cast again, though it costs an additional two mana for each subsequent cast
But this is likely because the magazine was marketed to kids and many of them couldn't resist handling the cards