how much is the gengar pokemon card worth - (34/119) - XY Phantom Forces Weakness Darkness ×2 Resistance Fighting The 5 Most Expensive Gengar

Part of this is indeed due to them being aggressively costed, but theres more to them than acceptable states as a fail case

My attitude was to hit every other flavor note and not make the triggers represent anything mechanically

Proctors Gaze Four color control is a bad deck

The flavor text, however, is pulled from Ecclesiasticus, also known as the Wisdom of Ben Sira, or simply Sirachinterestingly not Ecclesiastes, as the Legends printing says

But thats because what its doing is so unreasonable the cards that would back it up just dont get printed

Often there were existing designs originally made for posters or t-shirts that worked well