mtg alt win cards The Importance of the Alternate Condition Chance Encounter from Odyssey (2001).

There's also Pitiless Plunderer and Morbid Opportunist here which I thought would hint at a Sacrifice subtheme here but nope, there's 1 sac outlet in the entire deck (Shadow, Mysterious Assassin) and like two or three cards that sacrifice themselves (Priest of Fell Rites) so maybe these are either random "hope for value" inclusions or maybe the remnants of a previous version of the deck that focused more on Sacrifice, who knows

There's so much value concentrated in one card that it sells for more than half of a play booster box

Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Legal Historic Legal Modern Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp

And yes, its none other than everyones favorite treasure-stealing monkey

The card is too good, the surrounding deck is phenomenal

Youre often more than happy to pay two life instead of the extra blue mana, so it effectively costs three mana while also being able to copy artifacts or creatures