Number 6: Gold Star Pikachu 2006 EX Holon Phantoms ($8,600) If you read our recent article featuring the rarest and most expensive Pokmon cards, youll know that Gold Star cards are some of the most expensive examples out there
I also love this in sacrifice decks since bargains count as sacrifices so you can net a bunch of triggers to things like Rakdos's Mayhem Devil
That's nice, but you probably have loftier ambitions than ramping your mana, right
While this might not seem like the best ability at first glance since you have to sacrifice your own creature, cards like Archon of Cruelty, and The Immortal Sun are all well-worth the cost of a creature to place on the battlefield early
Notably, every single one of these cards, from pseudo-hexproof to card draw, fits Magic: The Gathering's Blue colour identity extremely well - it's likely no accident that Sapphire was chosen for this colour
We'd get back Destructive Revelry, side in Wrenn and Six, and win the mirror with Scavenging Ooze