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It helps prevents cheating at tournaments A standard card size makes it easier and quicker for tournament organizers to ensure no players are cheating by using differently sized or counterfeit cards

you can simply fan them out and scan them in

And when it deals damage to a player, you put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control

Yet, despite the complaints of excessive curling, my foils were quite flat: Foil Card Construction and Curling Causes Foil cards consist of three layers: metal foil with the face printed on it, glue, and a cardboard back

It reprints an effect we've only seen a few times - The most recent of these came down in the first Modern Legal expansion set - Mirrodin