Azelf is for grabbing Palkia LV
Fail to respect the forest and you will fertilize it
If you do this exercise to find the "residual" for each card shown above, you get an average of 1.19 "additional MV" to get the cantrip.The cards in this image are sorted by undercostedness: a 1/1 with flying and deathtouch "should" cost 2 MV according to the model
However, even at that price we would say the advent calendar is easily worth it based on what you get, the chance to pull rare and valuable cards the included boosters afford, and just how much fun it is to open these products each day of advent with family and loved ones
3 Likes effectspore January 3, 2021, 1:56pm 16 A lot of miss information on this thread
It's also hate that doesn't necessarily conflict with some other artifact strategies the way Stony Silence and others might - if a player has more expensive artifacts in their deck, for instance, Meltdown is still a great sideboard card that likely won't destroy their own game pieces but will still affect a cheaper-costed deck