original pokemon card booster packs | FACTORY SEALED | 1999 Base Set Box | 36 | WOTC numbered cards Should I open these original

I started collecting Pikachu cards exactly a year ago (October 2015), and when I saw the Bulbapedia list I was already suprised to see so many cool cards I had never seen before

In simple terms, as its name suggests, the Expanded formats value proposition offers an environment with many more deckbuilding possibilities than the current Standard format

Blue cards are considered the control color because they have the unique ability to interact with the stack through counterspells

You rarely recover from many of these destruction moves, as only one card, the aforementioned Song of Inspiration, allows you to bring creatures back from the graveyard

Austere Command was a Commander staple for so long that it's seen almost a dozen reprints in the past decade, yet this card completely blows it out of the water on nearly every metric