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That on top of being on the Reserved List led to its price spiking very high because of the desire for such a unique card that highlights the early days of Magic card design

That's sort of a silly combo in and of itself, but when you consider how good Cutpurse is in conjunction with a lot of other cards like Pongify and Sylvan Offering and against decks like Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer or with Helm of the Host and you can see how building around Crafty Cutpurse could be fun and very profitable

There's no reason why players should have to spend a rare wildcard on Faithless Looting or a mythic wildcard on Crux of Fate other than Wizards wanting to drain as much money out of the player base as possible

In addition, numerous video game adaptations of the Pokmon TCG have been published, including two Game Boy Color games, the Pokmon: Play It