To name just one example, cards like Rare Candy and Transceiver sold for more than $25 each despite their lower rarity
Narset, Parter of Veils Narset, Parter of Veils is a deceptively mean MTG planeswalker, who fetches you cards and stops your opponents drawing any
White can manipulate +1/+1 counters almost as well as black handles sacrifice synergies, so you can build a beast of a deck with this Orzhov commander, if a slow one
And, unless that 5 life is the difference between your opponent being able to attack you for lethal damage or notmeaning that they can't just do it again next turnit's not going to make an impact on the game
This card runs even better if you can get a variety of Link Monsters into your graveyard, so you can use this effect multiple times in the turn.
What Ive found in my own personal experience is that once I passed the 100 win mark (currently 145-4 right now!) I started facing much higher quality opponents