If youre playing a For Mirrodin! equipment deck you can lower this cards cost to only a single point of mana, but you absolutely dont need to
Literally zero if I keep pulling Mewtwo for Gengar, though if I manage to get the alt art Articuno I might switch to Charizard
Those packs are completly fine - Ive yet to see any good fake packs
For instance, if a card says "You may sacrifice a creature or discard a card," does the player first choose between buttons that say "Discard a card" and "Sacrifice a creature," or do they just get an option to click on either a card in their hand or a creature they control
Venerated Loxodon benefits from having other creatures on the battlefield, and most party decks play lots of creatures
Furthermore, this is also sometimes more effective than shuffling them back into the deck, as there is currently no way for players to retrieve item cards from the discard pile