I found the experience much more welcoming, and I was able to get established, get playing, and get into tweaking and perfecting my deck within a day's playtime - despite no solid experience with the game's meta beforehand - using articles like Wargamer's previous Pokmon TCG guides to help me out, of course
Outside of that, they are the same card
If you can consistently -X to get something good back right away then its fine, though the -8 is a bit of a pipedream
Straight Lines As with other aspects of print quality, you can also pay attention to the lines and borders within the design on a Magic card
As Ive said before, most if not all decks should be playing a good amount of mana dorks and rocks, but in this case you should be paying particular attention to it because you know whats coming
Court of Ire The weakest Court, Court of Ire is worthless without the monarchy and the most expensive of the lot