mewtwo legendary pokemon cards V 030/078 - Go Originally appearing in Next Destinies in 2012 Mewtwo 59 - SV07 Stellar

By banishing this item and paying one ink, you can return an exerted character of yours to your hand , and gain two lore

Facilitates a slow, controlled learning experience with all essentials for two players to start playing instantly

At the cost of one power and toughness, this Otter creature takes the Electromancers vanilla status and attaches both haste and prowess to it making this both a solid pay-off and an excellent enabler for instant and sorcery strategies, which is a fairly impressive combination for just two mana

One creature will gain in size by two power and toughness and then it gets trample to smash and goad for being forced to attack elsewhere

But the two effects are at least always synergistic, which should hopefully avoid the situation where only one half of a split card is considered playable, and the other half only exists to complicate mana value calculations

So why, in 2023, has this card only sold for a comparatively low $168,000