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Giving you more mana to place threats down as well as giving it Rush or a +1/+1 counter is extremely powerful

Pairing it with something like Font of Agonies turns all that life-payment into a steady stream of removal, and it has a great baseline of doubling up on fetch land activations

It even deals some extra damage with its end step ability, which is relevant to this cards strength since it lets decks that care about the graveyard use Valakut Exploration without worrying about losing cards to exile

Winding Way Another typically green card quality card in that it is a bit different

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)