original dragonite pokemon card - SWSH12: Silver Tempest style setup or your main portfolio Dragonite 1999 Pokemon Fossil 1st

It can also one-shot players out of nowhere, and it creates large bursts of mana, just enough to activate Door to Nothingness

Now if you were going to drop this kind of money on a card, would you do it on this one

Mono-color samurai like Iizuka the Ruthless, Nagao, Bound by Honor, Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo, and Sensei Golden-Tail just dont do enough or interact with a particularly relevant creature type

Wait until a card is at its floor price before buying in

Clone variants excel here because you can have the clone enter as a cheap copy of somethinglets say Aether Channelerthen flicker it later to copy something juicier, like Agent of Treachery