It was thus decided that it was an acceptable bend for this set
Some example decklists I'm using as a basis: Reid Duke's winning Griselbrand list from a June 2012 SGC Open Josh Weinundy's winning list from an October 2011 SGC Open Christopher Walton's top-8 list from the same even A decklist from the Mental Misstep era Andreas Mller's GP-winning list from 2010, predating New Phyrexia Owen Turtenwald's 10-th place list at GP Atlanta, with discussion Robert Cucunato's 1st-place list from an October 2013 SGC Open
However, there is one alternative win condition that we can add to the deck: Combo
While some Pokemon spike in popularity when a single chase card is released before fading back into the pack, Mewtwo has produced genuinely valuable, genuinely sought-after cards in Base Set, the Wizards-era Gym sets, the ex era of the mid-2000s, the EX era of XY, the GX era of Sun and Moon, the V/VSTAR era of Sword and Shield, and now the modern Scarlet and Violet era