Experience the thrill of adding this powerful card to your deck and dominating your opponents
The Reserve List ensures collector's that the cards listed on it will never be printed by Wizards of the Coast again, meaning they are from an extremely limited print run
People wanted this version specifically and they made it a bonus card. They understood what everyone wanted the counterspell to look like but decided theyre going to make it a GAMBLE if you get it, notes u/Apprehensive_Debate3 in one of the most upvoted comments My god, and you know this thing is gonna be like 10 times the price of the normal one. They don't want to lose reprint equity by putting a $30 print in a $30 lair, but they want to turn the drops into a lottery to create future FOMO a la Fallout Mana Vault or Miku Snapcaster Mage, says u/easchner
So long as your deck meets those conditions, this card should be a star player
Cards printed later than the first print run are indistinguishable from later cards, with the exception of misprints in the first print run
I like to run proxy cards/decks as I don't play with any official cars that cost's over $15, and I use many of my favorite cards in multiple decks, so buying multiple copies isn't feasible for me