Japanese boxes also guarantee at least one SR or higher-rarity card per box English boxes do not
But then again, I imagine they are all like this now
Grow from the Ashes compliments Cultivate this time around, as our mana will vary in different stages of the game especially given the win condition Ive chosen
Secondly, Counterbalance isnt at its best, as their deck expands upon the one-mana and two-mana spells territory which makes Counterbalance less reliable, followed by the fact that they are also running Abrupt Decay which might be accompanied by Golgari Charm post-board
Residential proxies are the gold standard here because they're tied to real ISP addresses, making them far harder to flag than datacenter proxies
Redditor CardOfTheRings accuses CGC of "trying to legitimize their second rate grading service with a publicity stunt," reasoning that no one would pay this value when there are "records of similar quality BGS cards capping out at ~500,000." Many others express similar sentiments less politely, with some calling it "blatant laundry", which is meant not in the sense of money-laundering but in terms of artificially pumping up card values to inflate the market more generally