Compare that to English booster boxes that routinely sell for $100$150
If a face-up Spellcaster monster(s) you control is destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect: You can add this card from the GY to your hand
Plus a bit of trivia about these old cards that people may not know
With that being said, if the card is a GEM MINT PSA 10, on average it sells for $3,750 and can get up to $4,600
The more removal spells you can lock away with Freebooter and the Mage, the less likely you are to see a cascading chain of freed removal spells dealing with your battlefield
In a mono-color deck, it's impossible to be color screwed (assuming you're not playing an absurd amount of colorless lands for some reason), and in a two-color deck, it's pretty unlikely that you'll get color screwed with a properly built mana base featuring a reasonable number of dual lands and other types of ramp / fixing