You can only be so down on cards before youre losing most gamesthats just math
Actually, there's no ethical or acceptable reason to make "proxies" to pass the light test, bend test, and other well-known tests to weed out fake cards because there's no ethical or acceptable use of proxies that requires the proxy to be as similar to a real card as possiblea Sharpie on a basic Island does the job just as well and without any of the legal and moral issues
(6/22/2015) If Gideon can't be attacked, perhaps because he has left the battlefield before the creature's controller's next combat, the creature targeted by Gideon's first ability can attack you or another planeswalker you control, or its controller can choose to have it not attack at all
And Elite Four, also the Fortress Leader, imposes a mutual conditional that, it seems to me, is designed to accentuate some broad characteristic of a type: statuses for Grass, alpha strike for Electric, retreat cost for Water, and so on
Astral says that Shark is indeed a very talented Duelist, but that is not the only reason he won