There are plenty of ways to make this ability cheaper with cards like Training Grounds, or you can ramp hard
Think of this as a day-0 pick order for FDNs best uncommons
While something could come along during the rest of spoiler season, we have a fairly large sample size of aftermath cards at this point, and their "hit" rate is incredibly low, so it seems unwise to expect much
Last March of the Ents This eight-mana sorcery can't be countered, can draw you a boatload of cards, and might just give you a huge army if you end up with a bunch of creatures in your hand
What I can say is that there will always be people like me who grew up loving Pokmon and still do, who may have kids of their own they want to share it with, and who will move from place to place with their Pokmon TCG collections in tow, remembering a time when they had to stand in line for a single booster pack.
A New Format With Some Holdover Standouts Charizard ex and Dragapult ex Will Stick Around in the Meta Many decks are leaving the format because of the 2025 rotation, but a few very powerful decks are kept mostly intact except for a few tech cards that boosted their consistency