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The more things Phase Out and get Suspended into exile (or just get put into exile in general), the more Time Counters The War Doctor gains

All five Mana Batteries were replaced by the inclusion of the Fallen Empires storage Lands, which made sense, since they did basically the same thing excepting that one was an Artifact and one was a Land

The deck is centered around Blastoise's Pokemon Power, which allows you to attach as many Water Energy to your Water Pokemon before you attack

Redditor CardOfTheRings accuses CGC of "trying to legitimize their second rate grading service with a publicity stunt," reasoning that no one would pay this value when there are "records of similar quality BGS cards capping out at ~500,000." Many others express similar sentiments less politely, with some calling it "blatant laundry", which is meant not in the sense of money-laundering but in terms of artificially pumping up card values to inflate the market more generally