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If the permanent card's mana value is greater than the number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, Squirming Emergence won't resolve

Several factors influence Fusion Strike card values: card condition (mint cards worth 3-5x more), rarity (holographic and rare cards command higher prices), first edition status, PSA/BGS grading scores, and market demand for specific Pokemon

Pokemon has been doing a good job of featuring cards people actually want in their Hyper Rare forms, making them especially fun to collect in order to include in a blinged-out deck

To prevent this, the Cascade rules errata from 2021 now says "you may cast that spell without paying its mana cost if its mana value is less than this spell's mana value"

Perhaps you still dont understand just why this particular set is such a massive deal