So what about the battling
The popularity may have fallen in recent years, but it is starting to climb back up
Next up is Izzet Splinter Twin, from 2011: Splinter Twin | Standard | Mike Flores, 2011 TCGPlayer.com WWS Big Apple/1st Creatures (11) 1 Pilgrim's Eye 2 Inferno Titan 4 Deceiver Exarch 4 Sea Gate Oracle Planeswalkers (6) 2 Jace Beleren 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor Instants (9) 2 Spell Pierce 3 Mana Leak 4 Into the Roil Sorceries (4) 4 Preordain Enchantments (4) 4 Splinter Twin Lands (26) 10 Island 8 Mountain 4 Scalding Tarn 4 Tectonic Edge Sideboard (15) 1 Basilisk Collar 1 Consecrated Sphinx 1 Dispel 1 Elixir of Immortality 1 Jace Beleren 1 Jace's Ingenuity 2 Manic Vandal 2 Pyroclasm 2 Spell Pierce 2 Spellskite 1 Trinket Mage Splinter Twin is sort of a hybrid Midrange/Combo deck
There was some polite clapping, but no one seemed to get that we were showing them a single card that had two faces
Some Pokemon have more HP, others have less, but what stays the same for all is that once the Pokemon's HP reaches zero it is game over
Interestingly, I think this is the driving force behind most of Alphas retail prices