Continuity Cameo: Todd Snap joined the main cast as a Guest-Star Party Member during the Indigo saga to advertise his home game, Isamu Akai (better known as the main character of the Pocket Monsters manga, Red) starred in a movie featured in an episode during the Advanced Generation saga, Jimmy and Marina (based off of the male and female protagonist of Pokmon Gold and Silver and Crystal) starred in a special featuring Raikou (rival Silver, appears in the Japanese opening for the special) note , and Lyra would become her own Guest Star Party Member during the DP saga
Team Rockets Houndoom IR also showed up late in the box, and it felt like the perfect closer
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The trick is to have enough nonland permanents on board that you can recoup the cost immediately, then untap with triple mana, or close to it
There is a deliberate visual continuity between this card and its Base Set ancestor, and the 151 set was explicitly designed to capitalize on that connection: every original Kanto Pokemon received new cards, and the Special Illustration Rares were positioned as the ultimate chase pulls for each Pokemon
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