Is this enough to get the blue-based affinity decks over the top
Rather than spending seven mana for it (which, again, is almost never going to happen), we can exile two black cards from our hand (like Chancellor of the Dross) to hit something for four damage and gain four life, making Soul Spike essentially the black Fireblast except costing black cards rather than Mountains
Once the popularity of the original Pokmon games had died down a bit, in came a whole new, even pricier Pokmon endeavour: Pokmon cards
While PSA graders will evaluate all of the attributes possessed by a card in order to determine if the card may be eligible, there will be a clear focus on centering
What interests me here is that you can still pay five mana to get most of an Austere Command without being in an Energy deck
Anzrag's balanced out slightly by not having any built-in protection, but it hits so far above its weight class at this mana cost