german first edition pokemon cards Base Set Booster Pack 1st 1999 Pokemon German Base Set

This action lets you play any character from your discard for free

Sam's namesake card is the most open-ended of these

Giving you more mana to place threats down as well as giving it Rush or a +1/+1 counter is extremely powerful

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Winding Way Another typically green card quality card in that it is a bit different

Something along the line of a scannable code on cards to verify authenticity would get the job done, but implementing the program would be costly, and it wouldn't help with all the cards that are currently in print (barring some sort of mass-exchange program, which would be even more prohibitively expensive)