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Raise the Palisade is a one-sided non-wraith bounce to clear the way

Your turn, your opponents turn, during combat, or in response to another spell

Admittedly, gaining life on this sort of effect is historically more powerful, being more at home in midrange and controlling decks, but making the opponent lose life does make this card more at home in aggressive black decks

This card serves as a forced Scoop Up, which meant that your foe had to take their active Pokemon and shuffle it and all cards attached to it into their deck which could really mess up your foes strategy if it hit

Heres what netted that kind of price: The cards price was buoyed not only by its PSA 10 Gem Mint grade only 121 PSA 10s exist in the world at the time of the auction but also by the fact that it is one of the cleanest copies in existence

Or cards that prevent you from losing the game, either straight-up like Stunning Reversal or by ending the turn before Phage's trigger can resolve with Sundial of the Infinite