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What makes some of these early Pokmon cards difficult to tell apart is the large number of printings that were made, as well as the subtle differences from print run to print run

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"In addition, Hada Freeblade, Spatial Contortion, and Circle of Flame will be banned in Pauper to correct a format issue where they are currently legal in the format despite only appearing at Common as promotional cards." Which is part of what spurred me to write this article (along with the Pauper MCQ), because I believe it's the first time that they acknowledged that there's any kind of problem with Pauper legality, much less the major one they have