Add in the low supply of many Reserved List cards (which occasionally allows sellers to manipulate the headline price number by listing a copy at an unrealistically high price point, which is how we ended up with Moat at $100,000 this week, even with a BSG 9.5 copy for sale at $3,400 and a played copy at $1,500), and the headline price of a card tends to overstate the price that you can actually get the card for, if you are willing to lower your standards a bit
Though it would usually take a while before it could summon its legendary 20/20 avatar creature, this was easily remedied with the help of Vampire Hexmage
Savage Beating Savage Beating is a pretty powerful card that forms two-card combos with many cards, like Spellbinder and Chun-Li, Countless Kicks, which explains why its sought after and worth $15
Things get a little confusing when a promo copy is the earliest released foil of a given card
These are spells that gain you a chunk of life and also do something else