As a baseline, the card is always good against instants, as you can just use the free mana to cast them right away
Now, if you look at my post on Base Set, I pointed out that the French commons, uncommons and Basic Energies sheets differ from the English ones but the German rares sheet does not, and stated that the use of striped collation may have been the reason
For the sake of this article, we're going to refer to your ungraded Pokmon cards as raw cards
Now that we've covered Nylea in "fair" Magic, here's the scoop on the broken stuff: Mono Green Cheerios
For just three mana for a 4/4, Topiary Stomper helps accelerate you up in lands, letting you search for a basic land and put it into play
The simple formatting of the core cards ensures that processing complex interactions never feels overwhelming