pokemon tcg pocket promo card 109 Chingling - Mega Rising B1-109 Pokémon TCG Pocket Promo-A: All

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager / Nicol Bolas, the Arisen Just 4 mana gets you Nicol Bolas, the Ravager and immediately forces your opponents to discard

Estimated from community opening data: 1 SR guaranteed per 30-pack box, ~25% chance of any SA card per box, ~20% chance of an HR rainbow holo, ~10% chance of a UR gold card

Creature-based counters like this have been beloved at the kitchen table ever since Mystic Snake was printed way back in Apocalypse

Finally, some cards have other costs associated with them, such as payment of life or sacrificing a creature

And yes, I am fully aware that there are workarounds to try to make the economy cheaper, with the biggest being playing a bunch of limited and rare-drafting aggressively, but just because there is a weird hack to make a very unfriendly system slightly more friendly doesn't mean the system is good

Itd be a really slick special set