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If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs

And now that Pokemon has started to configure collector-centric English sets (like Prismatic Evolution), we should see sets aimed directly at collectors loaded with top-tier chase cards that are strategically limited, while mainline, competitive-relevant sets are regularly restocked and made more widely available

I dont see this behavior as too too different than COVID

Removing a creature is pretty potent, so the design team decided to make it a one-time thing and turned it into an enters-the-battlefield trigger

While the deck might not flat-out win by Turn 4, it will be able to deal some damage and then be able to set itself up to have a wealth of topdecks to win the game in subsequent turns

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