When I spoke with the principal game designer Annie Sardelis at MagicCon Amsterdam, she stated that "anytime we [WotC] made up a creature, we would just kind of look through the book for, like, what is a characteristic about that creature we can evoke." Following up on this, principal designer Gavin Verhey said: "If it's in The Hobbit, it's in the set somewhere." Based on the Hobbit cards we've seen so far, this certainly rings true
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A close inspection reveals that authentic shadowless cards possess crisp borders without the shadowing effects seen on later prints
Flexibility is also useful: Sweepers are not a great replacement for spot removal
Cards are not tradable (so they have no real-world / resale value) and are acquired in almost exactly the same way (either by buying packs and then dusting, which I believe is called stoning in Eternal , or by earning them through playing the game, which apparently happens a bit faster than in Hearthstone )
SARs, URs, and Gold Cards are usually 1 per several booster boxes