You have to get rid of a second card to pay the cost, but the tempo gain and protection offered in that exchange are much greater than the loss suffered by pitching some other blue or green card
Every card in the Pokemon TCG has a value, whether it's as menial as a penny, or it catapults into the thousands of dollars
A couple of the cards have some slight clouding on the foils but nothing major
In April, 2017, a Magic YouTuber stacked up two dozen board games Ticket to Ride , The Settlers of Catan , Boss Monster against one of the most popular competitive decks in the Modern format at that time: the $935 U/B Faeries deck (the most popular one was the $1,492 Deaths Shadow deck
These cards technically fall off in value once youve reduced your pod down to a single opponent, but hitting a tapland shouldnt be so game breaking that these Battlebond lands arent worth it