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You can cheat some very big stuff into play very early while theyre durdling with Solemn Simulacrum and Burnished Hart

Additionally, Dialga-ex has only 2 retreat costs

And so there was a lot of discussion of, all right, what are characters that people would absolutely love to see, but we don't want to make them into a pair because technically the main version is dead, and it would be really weird to have a dead character and then their alternate version in the main set when we're pairing everything." He explains that in the Commander deck they could just include the alternate version

If you build sports sets and care about nailing the exact parallel, Ludex is the accuracy pick

Note that both of these can kill Vees which are artifacts not something Black is good at, hence them hitting here on my first list

Fake cards have gotten disturbingly good