The card's crosshatched foiling gives it that distinctive retro charm collectors love - a textured shimmer that outclasses regular holos
A few years later, we started getting pretty good elf cards, elf lords, and cards that make elf tokens, and today we have excellent competitive elf decks that swarm the board across different competitive formats
What a rise from a just expensive card to the most expensive Pokemon card
Goes well with Hedron Archive 4 Artifact (Tap: Add CC to your mana pool
For those who want to skip ahead and come back, the post-Oath list I would start on is at the end of this article
an absolutely fantastic set of finishes for their team, thanks to an innovative and largely misunderstood deck by Long, Brian Schneider, Andrew Cuneo, and individual tweaks by each member of the Nation