While value plays a role in determining if a card is worth spending money on to grade, this isn't a concern if you're purely collecting the card for yourself
What to Look For: Genuine: You should clearly see four red dots arranged in a distinct shape of an L (or a tiny gun shape) sitting inside the green circle
#7 Alakazam ex 201/165 Special Illustration Rare Like most cards from this set, Alakazam has retained its value quite well
You may pay alternative costs, such as impending costs, rather than the spell's mana cost
While it still plays a part for those of us not willing to shell out the cash for the mostly superior options, it suffers both from not being able to selectively keep your creatures while killing your opponents' and from sometimes not being able to wipe out the creatures with tons of +1/+1 counters on them
Today we are going to go over what I think will be the ten most impactful cards from this set in preparation for the Open Series in Chicago