For anything worth about $100 or more, buy it already graded by PSA or CGC, which authenticates it and removes the risk
If we reprinted a vanilla creature, it wouldn't matter that you couldn't read the text
Mary Read and Anne Bonny function great in the 99 of a pirates deck, but are also superb Commanders in their own right
As you'd expect, in-app currency is far more expedient and that means there's always the niggling suspicion that anyone shelling out in the Arena store will have better decks
Flubs, the Fool Flubs, the Fool is powerful but pretty hard to play with
An unblocked Etali, Primal Sickness is an instant game over (yay, alt wincons), and both sides have big power for decks that care about that