This is a separate ID verification system than the one that was announced previously by The Pokmon Company and that system is scheduled to launch in August 2026 to late summer 2026
there is no associated Story Deck for any of them, so you can either pick a pre-constructed Deck for which you own all the cards, or you can create a custom deck
Getting a cheap equipment as it enters makes your early turns a lot smoother, and trample means that equipment turns into real damage instead of just looking cute on the board
MTG Arena has a more generous mulligan system with the BO1 hand smoother, which allows you to have a better ratio of spells and lands
While Kinsbaile Cavalier's ability potentially offers a lot of damage, the downside is that it's only a 2/2, so it dies to basically every removal spell in the format, which makes it easy for opponents to play around it by leaving up something like a Shock
The problem is that counterfeit cards aren't "proxies" in the traditional sense because their intent is to deceive