While I would strongly discourage you from supporting people making counterfeit cards (which are often marketed as "proxies" even though their main goal is to replicate an authentic card so that it can be mistaken for the real thing), there are plenty of sweet non-counterfeit proxies available these days and it's easy enough to make your own proxies with your home printer or a Sharpie
Neither is better
Sign up for a Prerelease to get a Prerelease Pack, which comes with a 20-sided spindown life counter, six Outlaws of Thunder Junction Play Boosters, and a stamped rare or mythic rare card from the set to commemorate your Prerelease experience
In previous iterations, Jasmine was used for pulling additional Pokmon cards, but here she's taking more of a defensive route
The trouble is that theyre not cheap, and that makes keeping an eye out for deals on them (particularly by the box) all the more important
Gracing the cover of the most iconic early D&D starter, the red boxthe original art before edits was saved from a dumpster and returned to Elmore decades later, coffee stains and scrawled notes intact his art has been the anvil that many D&D players were forged on