While not every premium pull is destined for competitive dominance, each of the top ten most expensive cards so far has earned a lofty market price with jaw-dropping artwork, gameplay relevance, pure scarcity, or a combination of the three
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Simic Neoform (2.6% of the Winner's Metagame) 4 Misty Rainforest 4 Allosaurus Rider 4 Consign to Memory 4 Eldritch Evolution 4 Neoform 4 Planar Genesis 4 Summoner's Pact 3 Hedge Maze 3 Pact of Negation 3 Veil of Summer 2 Disciple of Freyalise 2 Generous Ent 2 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant 2 Nourishing Shoal 1 Breeding Pool 1 Griselbrand 1 Xenagos, God of Revels 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 1 Bridgeworks Battle 1 Polluted Delta 1 Ureni, the Song Unending 1 Hooting Mandrills 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Snow-Covered Forest 1 Snow-Covered Island 1 Endurance 1 Flooded Strand 1 Wooded Foothills 3 Mystical Dispute 3 Nature's Claim 3 Ice-Fang Coatl 1 Hooting Mandrills 1 Into the Flood Maw 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 1 Veil of Summer 1 Abhorrent Oculus 1 Snow-Covered Forest Simic Neoform seeks to cast Allosaurus Rider by exiling two green cards, sacrifice it to Neoform or Eldritch Evolution, and tutor out a game-winning creature
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I do think this commander would be lots better if it had more colors in its identity
Some Pokemon will appeal to those seeking something cute, some to those seeking something tough, something cool, something scary, and so on
No word on if all of these cards will make it into the North American Celebrations set this October, but its almost a certainty