It is weaker at smoothing out your curve as it doesn't really filter cards without shuffle and despite being cheap it is still twice as much to lay and use a Top than it is to Preordain
Or perhaps there's a 50 damage Aetherflux Reservoir trigger about to do you in
The deck consists of two evolutionary lines - the Gastly evolutionary line and the Drowzee evolutionary line
Take a look at these core set cards that have shown up in top Standard decks lately: And thats to say nothing of sideboard all-stars like Burning Earth, Negate, Staff of the Death Magus, or Eternal-format hits like Young Pyromancer
The picture below is the one I bought: SPOILER: Click to show 600800 142 KB English XY Evolutions Maroon Color Misprint The red/maroon miscolored background might be rarer, since Ive only seen two times thus far, of which I bought one from @fritz of this forum: SPOILER: Click to show 600800 175 KB1067800 275 KB And as you can see at the top two purple background Pikachus in the second picture above, there are also color differences among the purple backgrounds themselves, where I have both a light and darker purple background Pikachu from XY Evolutions
-2 Archon of Emeria, +2 Elite Spellbinder Archon isnt bad against some of these multicolored decks, but Spellbinder is usually better