roaring moon shiny pokemon card - ex 124/182 - Paradox Rift - Ancient Pokemon - Double Rare untamed spirit and ancestral design of Salamence Roaring Moon | Pokémon Cards

While the budget versions may not always be as good as the originals, they fill the same sort of roles in budget decks and in even in non-budget decks can provide redundancy to some great card draw effects

Surge Engine is a new level-up type creature, similar to Figure of Destiny and Evolved Sleeper

Shards of Alara Shards of Alara introduced one major new cycling tweak: Megacycling The Resounding cycle played around with something Tinsman had fiddled with back in Scourge with the Decree cycle: cards where the big part of the spell was the cycling effect

I tried everything from Polukranos and Vraska to Garruk, Caller of Beasts and Sylvan Primordial, but the former didnt have quite the power needed and the latter was a clunky and inconsistent combo