The texture can make surface imperfections more difficult to spot with the naked eye, but professional graders will catch them, which means that cards which look perfect to a casual viewer may still receive grades below PSA 10 or BGS 9.5
Sting is a great Flash artifact that is best played when your opponent's board is stacked with tapped creatures, but with a two-mana cost and a three-mana attach fee, it really could do with something else, like granting First Strike, to be a lock for competitive play
Note that you can get any land and then drop it since it says you can "play" the card not "cast" it
A super special section for you, here are some of my new additions from the set for the Type Four format, where you have no mana restrictions, but can cast only one spell per turn For those of you who play Type Four or limited infinity, Stolen by the Fae is one of my choices for the best cards in the format
You can also use Shake, which deals ten damage and forces your opponent to switch out Pokemon