pokemon sword shield booster pack & Fusion Strike Sleeved Surpass the Point of No Return Pokemon Sword and Shield (SWSH)

(Even bland ex cards were only appearing in one out of every six packs!) While this appears to be the new norm Pokmon TCG in the Scarlet & Violet era (and looks set to continue with Novembers Surging Sparks), its still hard not to hark back to the joy of sets like Crown Zenith, and wish for better

She has an attack trigger to spend two Golgari colored mana and then make a 1/1 Snake with deathtouch

Duress and Inquisition hit less and less as things tend towards a midrange dork based slugfest

This structure was facilitated by the use of hybrid mana and the Disguise mechanic meaning that cards that could be played face-up as AB could be played face-down for A or B

To fully explain why, however, were going to have to go back to the very beginning of Secret Lair

Were back with another Commander article here on Cardsphere