Marble Priest In the early 90s, there were more thematic similarities between Magic and the world of professional wrestling than people like to admit
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In 2022, an authenticated and graded Alpha Black Lotus has gone to auction just four times. None of the Black Lotus or Power Nine sales so far in 2022 have come close to the astonishing $511,100 paid for a PSA 10 Gem Mint Alpha Black Lotus signed by designer-illustrator Christopher Rush at auction in January 2021 - the most paid for any Magic: The Gathering card
The second is more short term, based on the fact that UW Flash and GB Delirium currently make up about 50% of the Standard meta, which is a historically high metagame share, and cards like Archangel Avacyn, Spell Queller, and Emrakul, the Promised End have the ability to invalidate entire archetypes all by themselves, especially in our current answer-lite Standard