Cards with creases, major whitening, water damage, bends, or heavy play wear should be left out of your shipment
The first installment of the Pokmon trading card game was released in Japan in October of the same year and featured art by Mitsuhiro Arita, the creator of the iconic Charizard art in this example, Ken Sugimori, and Keiji Kinebushi
At this point, Magic almost seems too big to fail (which is probably a good thing, considering some of the cards Wizards has printed and decisions it has made over the past couple of years), but this certainly wasn't the case in 1996
Toxic doesn't change the amount of combat damage a creature deals
The big creature becomes even bigger with banding