mtg gotcha cards Burnout [Alliances] When you do Cardpecker (Alternate Foil) [Unhinged] Heavily

This makes the extra token requiring you to attack with a non-token creature, putting it at risk

Focus on ones that pump power

Then the five-drop 3/6 lifelink Lotuslight Dancers will toss ETB one card of each of its colors to your graveyard, great for bringing back and then they don't have to be dorks, so your Green card could be Life from the Loam, as a great example

A powerful reanimation/recursion creature makes an excellent commander

I'm several paragraphs in and have yet to mention why this price spike took place, but that's because it's the same reason for pretty much every price spike in the last two weeks