Removing First strike from a creature after damage has been assigned and dealt in the first combat damage step does not allow it to deal damage in the second combat damage step (unless it has double strike at the beginning of that step)
"Population reports are the single most important tool for evaluating the true rarity of a graded card
To determine which cards are the most valuable, I'm using TCGPlayer's market value as of August 25, 2021
The results provide a lot of diversity within that fairly narrow merfolk-but-also-a-soldier vein, and gives a fair amount of variety in color and costume to boot
The usable comp is Japan, where the equivalent gold Abyss Eye card sits around 160,000 yen (roughly $1,020) after launching closer to 200,000 yen
Theyre often variants of the same effect, but with variations due to the limitations of MTGs color pie