The main difference in gameplay is the addition of sound effects, voicing, and animations, though these are generally reserved for particularly powerful cards
Buying the Japanese set from overseas sounds harder than it is, and a proxy service handles the parts that usually get in the way
This is a perfect wall hanging display card box for all graded cards
If a creature card is put into a graveyard this way, return it to the battlefield under your control
The current market is more towards collectors that chase one or two cards in the set and wholesale out the rest of the cards. Sussman questions how sustainable that is
This is also sort of naturally determined by the way the colors themselves play, but the creature versus noncreature theme which sort of naturally manifested was one of the starker contrasts I think Ive seen while making these