Swampert is a beefy 110 HP Stage 2 that holds up beautifully on display, and it follows the exact same raw versus graded split, with clean ungraded copies trading around $30, while graded 10 examples have climbed past $4,000
Vincent Proce's art sells this mix of living and dead incredibly, as, while some faces are clearly living or dead, there are too many who could fall either way, implying nobody would know which mouths to trust 7 Ad Nauseam Ad Nauseam is terrifying for a whole number of gameplay reasons, with entire "Adnaus" decks based around playing it for an easy win
But Bennie, you might respond, in a four-player game youre not going to necessarily lose if you stumble on mana in the first few turns of the game, and my deck having a higher percentage of powerful spells means once I turn the corner, Ill be able to impact the game more down the road. Which may be true if your opponents are merciful, and you get lucky
The cost of playing four Pack Rats is cutting some number of removal spells from your deck, which makes you less interactive with all of the other creature-based devotion decks, but it gives you a proactive game plan that often forces them to interact with you in ways they arent prepared to do
