The only downside is that it has a costly Retreat Cost, which means you might lose a point while doing setup
With just two gold crown cards on offer in Space-Time Smackdown, the chances of pulling Palkia's in the fourth slot of a regular pack are 0.020% and this improves to 0.080% in the fifth slot
Or it would do, except that fans in the r/CompetitiveEDH subreddit found a way around this drawback as soon as Noctis was revealed
A lot of people dont bother to, however, as the card generally costs about 50x as many dollars
Your creature only needs to attack and not even connect, and if you dont have anything to spend the extra mana on, you can instead grow the creature or dig for better cards
Omitting the need for two normal energies gives basic Pokemon like Heracross and Snorlax a ton of burst damage