Instead of paying the full mana cost, you could put a lot of cards in your graveyard (which many competitive decks tend to do) and pay the minimal cost for each of them
It's a Basic Pokmon with 60 HP, Level 12, and two attacks: 'Pound' and 'Confuse Ray.' The card exhibits the classic original Pokmon card design, with a yellow border, purple artwork background, and the distinctive 'Wizard's of the Coast' era font and layout
The Pokmon Companys assertion that these cards will exist in Pokmon TCG Live but wont be playable until a later date, suggests that there very well could be a date in the near future in which players can finally play the retro version of Pokmon TCG online
One mana turns into two the first turn you bring it into play, and then you just get two colorless mana every turn thereafter
With Rakdos having so many powerful vampires, you also get tons of payoff cards for those strategies
In parallel, there is another layer of demand driven by factors outside of gameplay: cards sought after for collecting , for being illustrated by a particular artist, for being a misprint , or for being part of a cycle