Pernicious Deed was always the key
Single rare Pokmon cards have also fetched large amounts of money in the past, including a first-edition shiny Charizard card - which was holographic and shadowless - that was sold at an auction for $264,000 (197,000), alongside an incredibly rare Pokmon card signed by the president of The Pokmon Company, Tsunekazu Ishihara, that went for almost $250,000 (187,000)
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He can create tokens more easily than you may think at first glance: permanents need to leave your battlefield, not necessarily die, so that opens the door not solely aristocrats shenanigans (were not in the right colors for it anyway) but also effects that blink, bounce, or otherwise make our permanents dance around zones