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Reports suggest the card belonged to a collector who bought it back in 2009 for $700 USD
Studio X has made quite a few cards of late that care or synergize with discarding outside of just reanimation strategies
In the case of unopened items and bundles, while you cant transfer them to Pokmon TCG Live, you will receive an amount of crystals - the apps in-game currency - based on the number of unopened products (not including specific unopened items, such as reward chests, avatar collection boxes and certain booster packs and theme decks): 1 to 9: 500 crystals 10 to 24: 1,100 crystals 25 to 49: 2,250 crystals 50 to 124: 4,700 crystals 125 or more: 12,400 crystals
The Knight is likely better, as First Strike tends to be superior to Vigilance in aggressive decks, and it puts the (not necessarily Basic) Plains onto the battlefield un tapped
Most groups have each player roll a die and whoever gets the highest number is either forced to go first or gets to choose if they want to start