Given as a trophy card to finalists of the Pokmon World Championships held in Anaheim, California during August 2006, in order to claim the card, players had to gain entry to the tournament by collecting enough points to qualify and then make it into the finals of their divisions
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Thalia, Guardian of Thraben slows down decks that rely on noncreature spells, and can entirely stop strategies like Storm from winning all together
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Now the MC's first strike is even better
With the help of Wrenn and Realmbreaker, he once again made a great sacrifice and switched Zhalfir with New Phyrexia, and thus freed his homeland while he time-locked the Phyrexians, at the cost of his planeswalker spark