Sure, a Drannith Magistrate is about as safe a stax piece as they come, but land an ill-timed Teferi, Time Raveler and suddenly you are the only player capable of holding back the bevy of opponent win attempts which may be made as the game progresses
Again, you can get a land with three mana, which is too much, but later in the game you can get two additional land drops
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
December 1, 1999 Pokemon Card Trainers Magazine Vol.4 is released with 2 promo cards
II, III Each player secretly votes for up to one creature, then those votes are revealed