Its a dramatic shift, I know
You can even pay a little extra to gain a small creature body on top of the exchange, or some other kind of permanent advantage
Also, make sure to stack your deck with massive-powered creatures since Geralf mills ALL players when looking for the ingredients for his masterpieces
Rakdos Pact with Harmless Offering 4 Greed's Gambit 2 Cut Down 4 Harmless Offering 4 Go for the Throat 4 Duress 4 Demonic Pact 4 Torch the Tower 4 Blackcleave Cliffs 4 Case of the Stashed Skeleton 4 Beseech the Mirror 4 Swamp 1 Brotherhood's End 4 Blazemire Verge 3 Mountain 4 Raucous Theater 4 Restless Vents 1 Rankle's Prank 1 Molten Collapse 4 Lithomantic Barrage 4 Cruelclaw's Heist 1 Sheoldred's Edict 2 Leyline of the Void 1 The End 1 Pyroclasm 1 Case of the Crimson Pulse 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General In 2016, Chris Botelho showcased the competitive potential of Demonic Pact and Harmless Offering, piloting the combo to a Top 8 finish at the 1,712-player Standard Grand Prix in Portland
If youre interested in rarity, each card game has a different system, but generally speaking the rarest cards will look the best, be the hardest to obtain, and generally be similarly valued on the secondary market
I want to admit that right away