Its one of four prototype cards produced by Wizards of the Coast to convince Nintendo that a Pokmon trading card game was a good idea
The only things that really limit Walking Ballista are: The length of the game
Enter the Bargain, with twice the cost, only skips your draw step, you draw them immediately to cast them or in response to something, and it's even legal as a four of in Vintage where it used to be on the B&R list
Fakes often show blurry, pixelated, or overly shiny foil that looks cheap. Modern sets (Scarlet & Violet era) use a specific holo patternany deviation is a red flag
With Artifact Offering , you can tap your Gilded Lotus for three red mana, sacrifice it for another five mana, and then pay one mana of any type, and boom, you get a Blast-Furnace Hellkite
The single-color, 100-card decks feature easy-to-grasp archetypes players will quickly learn