The big problems here (apart from it being quite time consuming) are that modern fakes are generally not thin enough for the light test to be conclusive - and that the huge variety of different holographic card treatments in Pokmon nowadays react to light in totally different ways
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While it doesnt give you the buff and haste that you can get from Finale of Devastation, this card will still make it into lists that have specific tutor targets that win games
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Its power is 4+ for power-based decks, it's in the color of Food matters in Green, it mills for recursion of things like lands or things like Regrowth, then you draw a free permanent, so it likes decks heavy with things that have a battlefield presence, and you can always just return a land if there is nothing else