It affects: How a deck feels when you shuffle, cut, and fan it out on the table How long your cards last before edges start to fuzz How easy it is to spot marked or warped cards in a high-stakes game How easy it is for judges and players to trust that a deck of real cards behaves as it should When Wizards chooses stock, coatings, and printers, theyre balancing print quality, manufacturing cost, and how the cards hold up in the real world
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Gold Star Pokmon are so powerful that players can only hold one in their deck at a time to avoid providing a single player with too much of an advantage
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Then there are Psychosis Crawler, which turns those extra draws into life loss for your opponents, and Sheoldred, which turns the extra draws into more life for you