Prolonged reliance on Dark Contracts has an adverse effect on your Life Points, so be sure to have a goal in mind before you sign on the dotted line
There are a lot of fun cards here
Lower Text [Security] You may play 1 level 5 [WarGrowlmon], [Taomon] or [Rapidmon] from your hand without paying the cost
Your deck of cards represents your grimory, as cards are the spells you know or the creatures you can summon in your ranks to defeat your opponents.
Even within the rules of fan-art I listed above: people buying it know theyre buying a proxy, a replicated card (at least, assuming its not someone trying to hock a proxy off as being authentic) the fact that it does use authentic artwork is tricky, and maybe the most grey of greys involved proxies dont interfere with the rights-holders from selling cards because, well, the rights-holders dont get ANY money from the secondary market to begin with
While about 18 Cyber-Steins were given to tournament winners between 2004 and 2005, over 120 (and possibly more) were released at Upper Deck Day