The shadow appears behind the art and is called out by the red arrows
Once a card is slotted into a sleeve, its protected from all the forms of wear discussed above
While it takes a little bit of work for it to become a creature, even just getting one charge counter on it via Station (or other means), turns into a counter-producing engine
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Tutors: Transmute Artifact, Gamble, Mystical Tutor, Personal Tutor Ramp: Mana Crypt, Solemn Simulacrum, Thran Dynamo, Gilded Lotus, Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, Basalt Monolith, Voltaic Key, Coalition Relic Disruption: Force of Will, Mana Drain, Counterflux, Vandalblast, Blasphemous Act, Pongify, Rapid Hybridization, Cyclonic Rift Draw: Rhystic Study, Recurring Insight, Consecrated Sphinx Utility: Lightning Greaves, Ral Zarek, Time Stretch, Dack Fayden, Sensei's Divining Top Lands: Academy Ruins, Strip Mine, [Reliquary Tower]], Command Tower, Sulfur Falls, Steam Vents, Shivan Reef, Desolate Lighthouse, Cascade Bluffs, Scalding Tarn, Volcanic Island, Minamo, School at Water's Edge, Ancient Tomb, Myriad Landscape If you're mad enough to fully bling out a Coin Flip deck, then here's a list for you to ponder: Next One's A Secret

Ampharos has seen plenty of ups and downs in recent years, falling through the floor from above the $52 mark down to roughly $48 in mid-2024, rebounding to the 50s in the latter months of the year