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)
Changeling Titan counts as a bear, has great stats for its mana cost and synergizes great with Ayula, Queen Among Bears as the body is great for fighting and on top of that Champion a Creature mechanic causes another EtB trigger when it leaves the battlefield
[R][R][C] Fire Blast: 120 damage
I do think we do need a couple of 'just a dude' guys to be a baseline, and having a traditionally heroic hero and villain works here
Still, its important to have a banlist that players at new local game stores can turn to in order to keep gameplay consistent
Two Zapdos ex allows me to build a deck around one of my favourite monsters in the TCG (I ran an Electropower Zapdos deck back in Sun & Moon Team Up), and there are a bunch of random alt arts that look amazing, too