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This can be compensated for with creature and utility lands to some extent but it will hurt your speed or your consistency to do so and is especially dangerous to do so heavily in a 15 land deck
For example, Japanese cards have a specific holographic pattern for cards rated at least Rare, which fake cards fail to copy accurately
But it's not game breaking by any sense of the phrase
Variety/Pedigree MCDONALD'S
Never count Sheoldred out