Zimone and Dina has the awesome ability to sacrifice creatures and convert them to card draw and mana ramp, all the while draining opponents for their life
Regardless, we get something akin to goad, before Wizards decided to fully embrace the mechanic and later additions to the deck like Frenzied Saddlebrute and Frontier Warmonger really help to push the political aspects that place Thantis at seventh overall in Jund
Of course, the biggest weakness to Crobat is that it's a Stage 2 Pokmon AND it requires Arceus to be a real threat
But it quickly became apparent that getting max-value for a specific Pokemon card was to acquire near-mint to mint versions of high-margin cards and then send them in to get graded (which increases the value anywhere from 2-10x the raw or ungraded value of the card)
There are ways around that, using cards like Squee, Goblin Nabob to discard meaningless cards or using other tricks like Stroke of Genius to draw extra cards that you can use to pay, but most people who played the Masticore played it fairly
Volcana, for example, is featured on the card Volcanic Villain, pictured to the right
