Actually, there's no ethical or acceptable reason to make "proxies" to pass the light test, bend test, and other well-known tests to weed out fake cards because there's no ethical or acceptable use of proxies that requires the proxy to be as similar to a real card as possiblea Sharpie on a basic Island does the job just as well and without any of the legal and moral issues
You dont need to go to extreme measures, like dealing 1,000 damage or something, but just enough to seal the deal
This extra set is much smaller, coming in with just 130 cards, including variants, but a good portion of the cards will set you back at least $20, and there are seven cards in total with a value over $100 at the time of writing
Exiling an indestructible creature that was expecting to be merely chumped by your commander is a delicious proposition for only one mana
Grand Arbiter is the grandfather of stax, a strategy that aims to lock players out of the game through stax pieces and other hate bears
As if that wasnt enough, if you have seven mana, you can even give your Octopus +1/+1 and haste
