For three generic, one black, one green, and one blue, Muldrotha, the Gravetide comes onto the battlefield as a 6/6
Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total
Several factors influence Best of Game card values: card condition (mint cards worth 3-5x more), rarity (holographic and rare cards command higher prices), first edition status, PSA/BGS grading scores, and market demand for specific Pokemon
Mechanics like flashback and disturb that allow a card to be played from the graveyard mitigate the effect of discard, but dont circumvent it entirely
This means you can continuously mutate creatures to create more powerful creatures with stacking abilities