High-grade Alpha cards are rare, as MTG cards from the early days were heavily played, traded, and often damaged due to the lack of protective sleeves
If you want your deck a little greener or with some extra-pointy ears, this guide is a great place to start
So yes, you will be paying slightly more, but you'll likely be getting more value out of the boosters
As others have said in more detail, that basically locks you into mono-Green, which creates all sorts of problems for deckbuilding
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Because of this, the Burned status condition is far more frustrating to apply to keep up pressure in a match, but that does not mean that there aren't good cards that fulfill this purpose