Then theres the card number to the right, which has an XXX/063 designation
For decks with three or more colors, where you might only be able to afford a small number of MDFCs since you'll need most of your lands to either be basics (for ramping / tutoring purposes) or tap for multiple colors of mana, the best MDFCs are Bala Ged Recovery (seriously, if you have green mana in your deck, play this card), Valakut Awakening, Hagra Mauling, and Ondu Inversion, along with the mythic cycle, which is almost always good if you can afford another land that only taps for a single color of mana
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2024-06-07 The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger
The pattern exists and it is real
Figure 11 Non-foil Sorcerer (Alpha, right) versus Sorcerer (Beta, center right) and the Philosophers stone (Alpha, center left) versus Sorcerer (Beta, right) While these might not be the most striking examples, I think it is pretty clear that the cards from the Beta printing do indeed appear darker