Ironic." Tyvar Illustrated by Tiffany Turrill Phyrexia: All Will Be One #123 Rulings for Blazing Crescendo 2 2023-02-04 You pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for a card played this way
Brawl encourages creativity, lets you explore legendary creatures or Planeswalkers as commanders, and challenges you to build within the constraints of Arenas card pool
The Pokmon Company doesnt mention microtransactions specifically in todays announcement, so well have to wait to see exactly how the in-game economy shakes out, but for now it does sound like you can earn new cards and avatar accessories without spending money
Based on the latest market prices tracked on TCG Stacked, Pikachu V-UNION is worth about $2.25 USD
If you can get a counter of this, the rate on this will feel fine
But even an even exchange with the discard coming first can have a card quality discard effect (that is it forces players to exchange cards they've been saving for random cards making the player lose overall card quality)