Team Rockets Houndoom IR also showed up late in the box, and it felt like the perfect closer
The Vow megacycle is a more obvious if expensive example: theyre straight-up buffs for your creatures, goad effects in multiplayer, or Guard Duty in a 1v1 situation
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Genuine English Gold Stars trading between roughly $700 and $1,100 raw as of late June: the Regi trio from Legend Maker (Regice at about $700 is the cheapest Gold Star, period), Celebi from Crystal Guardians, the Power Keepers Eeveelutions (Flareon around $776, Jolteon $860, Vaporeon $1,085, a fraction of their POP 5 cousins), and the legendary beasts Entei, Raikou, and Suicune
Either youre getting cards or youre getting Assassin tokens
Against fully tuned Commander decks, precons can feel underpowered until you start upgrading them with stronger staples or additional synergy pieces.