pokemon booster box price history TCG: Scarlet & Violet featuring the return of Kadabra after an epic 20+ year hiatus The Ultimate Pokémon Booster Pack

You could build a deck with nothing but Vampires you'd find in a bulk bin and still have a powerful deck that could take out almost anything in the lower brackets

The final result looks abnormal and artificial to a trained eye

Even the spikey rares, priced to move in Standard, invite the player to build around them: Cunning Lethemancer is an obvious combo with Unearth in this block, but Time Spirals Flashback is an equally juicy way to break the symmetry, or you could simply build a cheap aggro deck that uses Lethemancer as an empty-handed curve-topper

Surge doesnt protect from destruction-based board wipes, but it does work against damage-based ones