(2024-02-02) If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs
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The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The AI in Expert-level Solo Battles appears to have its opening hands be seeded instead of being drawn at random, as it will almost never open with a bad hand and will get its key cards, or at least two Pok Balls and a Professor's Research, far more often than mere probability can account for
If you can ge these triggers going it can be pretty insane, but it's super vulnerable and expensive to cast, and it isn't like drawing 2 cards a turn is automatic
The Khans one Im frustrated with, though, is Lotus-eye Mystics
The OP13 Red Super Alternate Arts completely dominate the top tier of the hobby right now, proving that these ultra-low pop chases are moving the needle for high-end collectors