Because Big Mom Pirates remains a competitively viable theme for decks all the way through to the OP-10 metagame and beyond (if Eastern testing is to be believed), many of these stronger characters have stayed powerful and expensive
Draft Night Pull everything you need for a Pick-Two Draft night right out of the box
Use Lillie to keep Charizard ex alive, and dont forget to give it the Giant Cape for extra HP
Its harder to be kind to Lurrus, whose deck building restriction draws a huge line through the middle of the Modern card pool and says only these are playable now. Suddenly you have pro players wondering aloud why Shadowspear is a $20 card, and Engineered Explosives is the most played card in Modern
Whenever a player successfully knocks out one of their opponents Pokmon, they can take one of their six available prize cards, with the other player needing to put another Pokmon card into their active slot
Play it with Stasis for arguably the saltiest combo in EDH