This Trophy Pikachu sale comes just after a BGS Black Label Mega Gengar sold for $85K on May 8, marking the highest sale ever for a modern Gengar card
A nice copy now trades for over $650, with graded 9s and 10s selling for thousands
I honestly cant say how the AI involved in this process compares to Hearthstones - which has improved a lot over the last season or two - but it didnt do anything too obviously silly
There were a few main decks that started to supplant Warriors: Chaos, Tomato Control, and Monarchs
Valakut Exploration does require you to play lands in order to work, but thats a small price to pay for a three-mana draw engine in a format littered with four-mana cards like Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Outpost Siege, and more
Lastly, I was playing BO1 on Arena , which employs a hand smoothing algorithm that artificially favors decks with lower land counts than normal