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People use proxies for a bunch of extremely normal reasons: - Playtesting new decks before spending money - Commander upgrades without chasing down every last staple immediately - Cube maintenance (updating lists without re-buying a small nations GDP) - Kitchen table games where the goal is fun, not authentication theater - Protecting valuable cards by keeping originals safe while you play with substitutes If your group is on board, proxies are often the simplest way to keep games creative, fair, and actually happening

However, it being instant speed fixes a lot of potential downsides and gives us some flexibility

This is a highly desirable card because of its beautiful artwork as well as its featuring of Pikachu and Red (a sure combination for a valuable card)

Against opposing Erhnams

White does the heavy lifting of modifying your creatures with counters and equipment and auras while blue provides evasive threats like Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel to carry all those modifications

Replacement effects commonly offer these unintuitive exceptions, like Doubling Season doubling Loyalty counters on Planeswalkers that enter play