The result confirms that the previous sale near $4,000 was not necessarily an isolated outlier and gives collectors another public data point for an extremely scarce Pristine copy
It could even work for control decks that can use the flip side, Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia to help keep mana open for counterspells
While it's an expensive card to play, the Shift cost helps reduce this
These cards serve valuable utility in Dimir reanimator decks in Legacy, which use blues unmatched stack interaction with blacks hand disruption and Reanimate, which is trivial to set up with pieces like Entomb or Troll of Khazad-dm, or even targeting yourself with Thoughtseize
In a mono-color deck, it's impossible to be color screwed (assuming you're not playing an absurd amount of colorless lands for some reason), and in a two-color deck, it's pretty unlikely that you'll get color screwed with a properly built mana base featuring a reasonable number of dual lands and other types of ramp / fixing
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