Black in Theros: Beyond Death manages to take a lot of fairly generic horror tropes, like zombies and cosmic beings, and turn them into something thats both mechanically fun but also gorgeous to gaze at
Wrap Up Turn Aside | Illustration by Jaime Jones Using the sideboard effectively is one of the hardest learning curves a player will ever face in Magic
Gaeas Cradle Gaea's Cradle and Serra's Sanctum generate so much extra mana for a single land drop that its no surprise they made the Game Changers list, especially in a format thats moving away from mass land destruction (and even targeted land destruction)
Turning life into mana, even colorless mana, is an insanely good deal
Overall, Energies tend to be more valuable than Golden Trainer Items because of their use in the game, but it still comes as a surprise to me that this one ranks that high
The problem is that even if you break through like this, the battle continues the same way as if you lost, saying, "Please, mega evolve Lucario!", so there is no point in trying