The deck's landfall shenanigans can easily get out of hand, and WotC even included an infinite combo when making the deck (Yedora Grave Gardener + Sakura-Tribe Elder + Zimone)
As the game goes on the odd power here or unspent mana there matters a lot less and it becomes about relevant power
Red-Eyes Slash Dragon As I said before, its much more situational (especially if we take the current meta with Unchained, it almost plays in our disadvantage.) However, it allowed the deck to shine at full time thanks to its effects: When a card effect that targets one of our cards is activated, we can send an equipment card from our field to the graveyard
Product prices are dropping Additionally, while the cards themselves are rapidly becoming more affordable, the sealed products themselves have been becoming (gradually) more affordable
These will be full art, gold foil variants often of the most powerful Pokemon in the set
Graded Population Report: Cubone [1st Edition] #50 Visualize the distrbution of grades in the chart