This category refers to Gym Leaders Pokmon
They come into play tapped so I wouldn't run all of them, but they tap for colored mana and they let us go more ham on ramp because we can cycle them away for cheap later on when we don't need more mana, and doing so draws a card to trigger a ping out of Niv-Mizzet, Parun
Having red in the color identity rather than black gives the deck a different feel from Zaxara
Top 5 Price IncreasesMTG Cards $10 or Less #5 Taeko, the Patient Avalanche (Anime) Set: Foundations Jumpstart Printing: Normal Increase: +$7.74 Current Market Price: $12.54 Taeko spiked when Wizards of the Coast revealed at New York Comic-Con that the March 2026 Universes Beyond set would be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Modern cards from sets such as Sword & Shield and Scarlet & Violet can still be valuable
Rakdos decks are good at creature sacrifice, with both colors making lots of disposable creature tokens like 1/1 Goblins and 1/1 Vampires, and these colors have countless sacrifice outlets and cards that reward the player for killing their own creatures
