The standard hit rates for Illustration Rares and Special Illustration Rares might even out over a large sample size, but since you can't guarantee loose packs will be packaged in order, you could open several packs without a hit
But overall, investing in a complete set of Ashs Pikachu cards could prove profitable
The self-life loss was supposed to be the balancing point, but in practice it helped the deck access resources while still forcing opponents to deal with a huge leader body and some of the best red tools available at the time
Ramp shells, Tron builds, and Commander decks built around big-mana engines all benefit from having a reset button that sticks around afterward
Plus, doing the sixth color in a set like Planar Chaos had the advantage of giving us the perfect excuse to stop immediately afterwards
Now, you're probably wondering why it is almost free-to-play rather than literally free-to-play