These arent factory-staged poses theyre raw, pixelated snapshots, frozen in cardboard
When you cast a Fuse card from your hand you may pay the costs of both halves of the card, and you then get the effects of both, resolving the left half first and then right
That's okay, though - Cid's buff to artifact creatures and heroes also counts the number of Artificers in your graveyard
The most expensive card in the Black Bolt set is Red Victini (171/086) , a Black & White Rare that is insanely difficult to pull
To paraphrase, everyone hates Universes Beyond until their favorite thing shows up
Previous examples of the Alpha Black Lotus (the first series of MTG cards is called the Alpha series) had gone for as much as $250K, but this more than doubled the record and the general reaction was of astonishment