So being that I ate up a bunch of text on the intro, the podcast plug (listen to it, you), and the Designing Women nod - haha, remember that show
Another opportunity to snag a good deal comes at the other end of a MTG products timeline when its been out for a while and interest in the product has disappeared
Its power is tied to its cheap cost and wide range of abilities that are useful throughout a match, especially against decks that mill cards
The sets are almost identical, with Beta having a few extra cards that were missing from Alpha's original run (most notably, Volcanic Island)
Upon its reveal, competitive players immediately started looking for great Lugia VSTAR targets, which we now commonly know is Archeops, also from the Silver Tempest set