The good news is that most Pokmon cards will not be counterfeits, especially if theyre just worth 10s of dollars
Playing the deck is always a balancing act: you want to use your life total as a resource to power your aggression, without getting too reckless with it
Since it isnt an alternative cost itself, it can be used alongside an alternative cost
If youve ever wanted to cast Bahamut while tapping Forests, this set makes your dreams come true
At first glance, the effective mana cost of this effect is 3 mana (2 mana to activate, and 1 opportunity cost mana from having to tap itself) but upon closer inspection, since it finds you an untapped basic land which you can then tap for mana, you effectively get refunded one of the mana, and the actual effective mana cost of this effect is 2, which puts it on-par with Tectonic Edges mana efficiency