why is the mickey mantle card so rare Mint-Condition Sells for Record-Shattering $12.6 Million AUCTION RECORD: A decades-old, mint

If an Adventure spell leaves the stack in any way other than resolving (most likely by being countered or by failing to resolve because its targets have all become illegal) , that card won't be exiled and the spell's controller won't be able to cast it as a permanent later

A sub-theme of this deck, as denoted by Lurrus being the companion, is reanimation

But that often means playing for intermediate pressure so you can force them to use their cards at suboptimal times

When asked why it was so expensive, the owner pretended they don't know the price of things and are just guesstimating the price based off the order they made

That type of effect is only worth it when you have cards in your hand of course, but because you cracked Clues to get there, youre likely to have something to put it into play for free