No, you can evaluate your card all you want and give it a sealed hard toploader, but you need credibility to give collectors a sense of what standards you hold card grading to
However, collectors may care less about these similarities and contrasts than they do about their whopping pricetags
It gives the creature youre protecting lifelink, which can be pivotal in race situations as its likely to be a big creature, but itd be much better if it had lifelink itself, as that would then trigger the lifegain creature
As weve established , Pitch Black is as much a Darkrai set as Chaos Rising was a Greninja set, and Phantasmal Flames was a Charizard set
In Standard weve seen some U/W/R alternatives to Esper Control in the past, but Im not sure that the red offerings are really competitive with black at the moment
We also had Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile, a commander who wants you to cast five color spells (very hard when our deck is all two drops)