The following table shows how many packs you need to open and how much real-life money you should spend to purchase a card from each rarity
Chaos Rising - 5/22/26 Perfect Order - 3/27/26 Ascended Heroes - 1/30/26 Phantasmal Flames - 11/14/25 Mega Evolutions - 9/26/25 Black Bolt & White Flare - 7/18/25 Desinted Rivals - 5/30/25 Journey Together - 3/28/25 Prismatic Evolutions - 1/17/25 Surging Sparks - Released 11/08/24 Stellar Crown - Released 9/13/24 Shrouded Fable - Released 8/2/24 Twilight Masquerade - Released 5/24/24 Temporal Forces - Releasing 3/22/24 Paldean Fates - Released 1/26/24 Paradox Rift - Released 11/03/23 Scarlet & Violet 151 - Released 9/22/23 Match Battle Mc Donalds - Released 9/12/23 Trick or Trade BOOster - Released 09/01/23 Obsidian Flames Released - 8/11/23 Paldea Evolved Released - 06/09/23 Scarlet & Violet Released - 02/17/23 All images and links are from pokedata, Pokemon, justinbasil, and Poke Beach
If you do that, you fill graveyards very quickly, and that can be your win condition via mill or part of your graveyard strategy
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Flashy Fireballs, big, stompy Kalonian Behemoths, and game-changing angels like Avacyn, Angel of Hope
It will also stop that Dockside Extortionist from feeling so scary, especially since you can always pay one white mana and sacrifice Dauntless Dismantler to remove all of those pesky Treasure before they untap