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Even official products like the Elite Trainer Box (ETB) are built around this standard

Perhaps you need to control your opponents Pokmon a bit more, with cards such as Bosss Orders

There are 61 extended-art cards in OTJ: 50 rares and 11 mythic rares

Yes, Neo Genesis Lugia (especially Japanese printings) is considered rare

That said, there are not all that many different archetypes in black green that want mana creatures except the rock (which is arguably about 6 different archetypes depending on the build) and as Birds of Paradise is a better fixer and ramper the Elves of Deep Shadow are only there to offer redundancy to other better cards