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At the time we attributed that to its appearance in a tournament winning Legacy deck, but - given Boros Energy runs four copies of it - that's much more likely to be the source of the spike.

On their own, host creatures are fairly unremarkable

That removes the likelihood of this being countered at all since it's just going to be a 4/4 or 6/6 flying trampler so it's usually going to get there

Multiple early Sahagin in particular will just outrace a majority of decks, and its not actually difficult to find expensive noncreature spells since the set is built with this theme in mind

Iconic Pokmon like Pikachu or Charizard are known to drive up the desirability of the cards they appear on