Dakkon, Shadow Slayer While Dakkon, Shadow Slayer is a cheap Esper planeswalker at only 3 mana, it's arguably better to cast it later during the game as it's very likely youll have many lands at that time, and therefore, Dakkon enters the battlefield with more counters
While it also works well with Charizard, the leading Dragapult strategy pairs your heavy hitter with Dusknoir
Rather than going for Clock of Omens as soon as possible, Gustavo will usually find Portal to Phyrexia or The One Ring with the first Magda activation, or sometimes a stax piece if the table composition demands it
Buy sealed if you like the Paradox beast trio and want a balanced SV5K box
More importantly, this is a great introduction to Ruby/Sapphire's focus on Item cards, which set 7 Legendary cards in Lorcana emphasize through the new Tamatoa and Scrooge McDuck
And I appreciate you sharing the actual process