Pikachu ex can also launch a powerful Topaz Bolt attack for 300 damage, but it needs to discard three Energy in the process
Itd probably be the most expensive of the five if you could play it in Modern
Those old days were more chivalrous times, when turn-4 wins were considered overly rude
That was for a gem mint 9.5 copy - as of November 2025, the typical asking price for an Alpha copy was closer to $10k, and Revised printings go for more like $1k

Commander deck build - Fynn, the Fangbearer Creatures (36) Acidic Slime Ambush Viper Apex Devastator Beast Whisperer Bellowing Tanglewurm Blightsteel Colossus Champion of Lambholt Craterhoof Behemoth Deadly Recluse Elder Gargaroth Eternal Witness Evolution Sage Gnarlwood Dryad Hornet Nest Hornet Queen Karametra's Acolyte Moss Viper Mwonvuli Beast Tracker Narnam Renegade Oakhame Adversary Ohran Frostfang Phyrexian Swarmlord Questing Beast Regal Force Rhonas the Indomitable Sabertooth Cobra Sakura-Tribe Elder Scute Swarm Sedge Scorpion Skullwinder Tajuru Blightblade Vigor Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger Wasteland Viper Wurmcoil Engine Enchantments (4) Abundance Asceticism Guardian Project Sylvan Library Artifacts (15) Bow of Nylea Contagion Clasp Contagion Engine Decimator Web Emerald Medallion Lifecrafter's Bestiary Quietus Spike Scythe of the Wretched Sol Ring Sword of Vengeance The Great Henge Thornbite Staff Trailblazer's Boots Viridian Longbow Whispersilk Cloak Instants and Sorceries (8) Beast Within Cultivate Heroic Intervention Kodama's Reach Pistus Strike Praetor's Counsel Triumph of the Hordes Veil of Summer Planeswalkers (1) Nissa, Who Shakes the World Lands (35) Forest (x28) Blighted Woodland Castle Garenbrig Inkmoth Nexus Karn's Bastion Mosswort Bridge Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx Rogue's Passage Theres no way to comfortably go through every card choice, so well talk about the big notable cards here and some general themes in each section
