When Mike was hired, R&D purchased the "Astral Ways" set from Mike, so he turned in many cards from it in Tempest 's design
Are you focused on collecting every card featuring your favorite Pokmon, like Charizard
Playing mana dorks like Elvish Mystic will allow you to ramp up on mana, so much and so quick that by turn five you could be dropping a game-ending planeswalker or creature
The card is already big as a 6/6 for 5 mana, and if your strategies revolve around generating food, lifegain, sacrifice, or even +1/+1 counters, definitely include Ygra
One thing worth knowing: in the modern era, PSA 9s on a lot of cards are worth roughly the same as the raw card once you factor in fees
Keep Safe can target a spell that has multiple targets, as long as at least one of those targets is a permanent you control