crystal pokemon card TCG: All Pokemon, Ranked Card Number / Rarity The Most Valuable Crystal Guardians

Guaranteed Hits Per Box This guaranteed structure means even a cold box without SAR/SR/UR hits still contains 4-5 rare cards

Charizard didn't gain the Dragon-type for several more years, but few Pokemon resembled a Dragon in the way Charizard did at this point in the series

According to Mark Rosewater, "commons, uncommons, rares, and mythic rares" on the list can be found "at the proper rate to one another"

Thus, many Magic cards from that 1993 Alpha set are now worth thousands of dollars

Example: You Thoughtseize in the Deaths Shadow mirror and see no Terminates, no Dismembers, no Snapcaster Mages, but one Thoughtseize

The other exception is known but rare these days: when my opponent has one specific haymaker I need to interact with, I might hold discard until just before they can cast it