2m pokemon card ACE 9 - Venusaur - 003 - Basic style setup or your main portfolio Melmetal (Holo) - Fusion Strike

Paying life to get colorless mana for casting spells out of the graveyard

Nightmare Aura chip damage sets up clean Mega Harmony knockouts in a deck that attacks from two directions at once.

They help protect against dust, spills, and accidental drops

Kindred will replace tribal as a card type, affecting a group of cards first introduced in the portentous Future Sight set and later explored in depth during the Lorewyn block

Now, to be fair, I've only used the Whelp (and the Presence) in Limited formats

Chart shows the price of Iron Valiant ex #157 at the end of each month going back as long as we have tracked the item.