Authentic cards have sharp, consistent patterns, while fakes may appear blurry
When I first started working here at Wizards, however, I found that R&D uses proxies all the time to test cards
Each Commander Masters Commander Deck set includes 1 ready-to-play deck of 100 Magic cards (2 Traditional Foil Legendary Creature cards, 98 nonfoil cards), a 2-card Collector Booster Sample Pack, 1 foil-etched Display Commander (a thick cardstock copy of the commander card with foil etched into the cards border and art), 10 double-sided tokens, 1 deck box (can hold 100 sleeved cards), 1 Life Wheel, 1 strategy insert, and 1 reference card
Its hard to overstate how good having access to a Bolass Citadel in the command zone really is
Green decks have less ability to utilize dead cards in hand than red, blue or black so they like to play targets they have some hope of hard casting
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