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Ramp with cards like Iron Myr, reduce casting costs with cards like Foundry Inspector and Jhoira's Familiar, and finally cast big artifacts like Threefold Thunderhulk

While this Hancock hasn't seen much play in a while

The pandemic Roebuck credited the coronavirus lockdowns for creating the conditions that sent the Pokemon card craze into overdrive

Something along the line of a scannable code on cards to verify authenticity would get the job done, but implementing the program would be costly, and it wouldn't help with all the cards that are currently in print (barring some sort of mass-exchange program, which would be even more prohibitively expensive)