If you can get to 6 mana reliably, the artifact takes your board presence to another level and helps to finish off games with plenty of card draw to boost this presence
If that sum wasnt impressive enough, a Gem Mint 10 copy of the card then sold via auction house Heritage for $175,000 in July 2023, increasing its reputation as one of the most valuable Pokmon cards of all time
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If you're concerned about the fact that it only grabs permanent cards, just make sure you're running Eternal Witness or Timeless Witness and you'll have a shot at getting back that key instant or sorcery
There are two ways to go with this, I feel - the first I touched on already, and that is simply to keep a similar looking shell with the ramp, Fork, rummage effects and burn, but replace the combo element with more and bigger burn
(Source: I've been collecting Pikachu for ~8 years now and own almost all of them at this point..) I do agree he has way too many cards