shiny infernape pokemon card · Scarlet & Violet Promos (SVP) #116 ‹ PkmnCards Fighting / 130 / Stage 2 Card Text Infernape V SWSH252 NM Holofoil

While many demons encourage you to use life as a resource, having to also pay mana in order to get the tokens and only on your own end step makes him feel a lot less powerful than he otherwise could have been

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It shows how little the designers understood the game they had created that this card - which lets you draw three cards for one mana - was assumed to be roughly as powerful as Giant Growth, Lightning Bolt, Dark Ritual, or (of all things) Healing Salve

More likely is the scenario where they compared the continued thriving market for rare and expensive TCG singles against GameStops cratering stock price following a weird short squeeze ploy from amateur internet investors artificially surged its price for a brief, entertaining moment in 2021