With only a few dozen whitebacks reportedly produced at most for any card, artist proofs have themselves become highly collectible among MTG collectors - potentially being even rarer than the few surviving copies of the Alpha Black Lotus and other Power Nine cards recorded today
Couple that with Wizards insistence on putting prowess on every red creature that costs less than 4 mana, and you get a compact, resilient threat that can win the game in a few short turns
From the increase in powerful answer cards like Prismatic Ending and Force of Vigor basically KOing the archetype, to things like Ragavan putting absurd pressure on the early game, these types of decks have fallen to the wayside in Modern
Sure, you only get one of the three cards into your hand, but the others going into your graveyard is easily exploitable
Inexorable Tide: This has to be an auto-include in Atraxa, right
In GEM MINT 9.5 condition, the average price for a similar card is just under $3,700 but it's not the highest price ever paid, which was just shy of $32,000
