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Useful when you know your opponent wont have the mana available to trade it back, or to force them to spend that 5 mana to reclaim their stolen permanent

Notable hits here are the $70 The Ur-Dragon, $15 Scalelord Reckoner (funnily enough, I and a fellow Dragon enthusiast almost cut this from initial builds), the $15 Utvara Hellkite, and the $10 Kindred Discovery (which seems to have begun bouncing back from its recent reprint)

Some proxy services produce extremely high-quality prints that feel great in a sleeve

The set has two planeswalkers and they each get borderless treatments

though the archetype has many powerful enablers like Sleep and Opposition, Hylda is essentially the only payoff for the archetype