Amazing Rare Raikou The Amazing Rare Raikou doesn't get much love or mention in the set, but it is certainly one of the cooler looking cards in Vivid Voltage
This is the range I like for my specs, to go from $20ish to $40ish is much more likely than the poster foil going $120 to $250
If this card is sent to the GY as material for the Link Summon of a WATER monster: You can excavate the top 3 cards of your Deck, and if you do, you can add 1 excavated "Marincess" card to your hand, also shuffle the rest into your Deck
Bulk-friendly : Its one of the most common routes for printing hundreds of cards efficiently
So a lot more value engines, reasonably priced cards and just generally making things cheaper than they were in the modest era of 2004 Some trivia about the names and cards: Read the Air and A Thousand Years Early are both trying to invoke common Japanese idioms The cost reductions on Rupture the Blood and A Thousand Years Early are both meant to be ways to make the total spells you splice cheaper Tanuki is its own creature type because it should be
That's why you can apply a watermark on the card with the text "Playtest Card"