japanese alakazam pokemon card 059/187 sv8a Holo TCG — ToysOneJapan Buy now and own a piece of Pokemon history. Alakazam Gold Star Japanese 2006

Since the early days of the game, black has been secondary with cards with blue being the king

IV Choose up to three Doctors

They changed the mechanic to be whenever your commander entered the battlefield or attacked, so it rewarded keeping the commander in play instead of trying to get it killed

The choice is still there, however, to see three cards deeper into your deck and add any powerful card you just so happen to mill from it

This card provides nice ramp and color fixing, and it triggers landfall twice at instant speed

Despite Wizards being picked for the Pokmon TCG because of its success with MTG, I'd never really considered both products going through the same printing process, so to see them combined in such a bizarre way is an awesome bit of history for both games.