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Actually, you'll hardly win that fast with this deck

Once again, you can get cheap versions of this card from later sets for just a few dollars, but according to MTGGoldfish, an Alpha printing of Mind Twist went for over $200,000 back in the day

For better or worse, though, it definitely feels like were mid spike right now

As we are now seeing, the price differences between 7 and 8 and 9 are steepening

And unlike booster boxes, ETBs are never reprinted : once the print run sells out, they are gone

Worse, even in a best-case scenario for a print, the actual texturing and color vibrance is usually inferior to the Japanese version of the exact same card