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Until that happy day, we won't know for sure why WotC might have made this deliberate swap

Getting eight cards is huge, and often youll get something back, which is the usual downside of spending a card just to mill someone

This time, we have Illicit Auction, a card that turns a match into a silly bidding contest that will culminate with the winner paying a likely unreasonable amount of HP to gain or maintain control of a creature

The key fact here is that the Pokemon anime audience (which can to at least some extent broadly represent Pokemons popularity as a whole) declined by roughly 80% from its peak in late 1999 to its low in late 2000, before slowly recovering (but never again approaching its highs)