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Although not all cards are valued at quite that much, it still shows that there is a player-based market involving hundreds of millions (according to reddit, almost 3 billion) dollars worth of cards

So it's not that unbalanced in my experience, but the opportunity to draft a dud deck is greater than most other Standard sets

The fact that it then has the ability to trigger up to once every single turn its out simply makes it the best mana ramp white has gotten in a long time, and a contender for some of the best value too

Mega Gardevoir-EX became famous for its Brilliant Arrow attack

This relative lack of popularity generally means that core set staples tend to trend a little bit higher than the best cards from the fall or winter sets