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The Quiet Years (20002003) After the disasters that were Urza's block and Tempest block, Wizards seemed to learn their lesson and change philosophies when it came to Standard: rather than printing any crazy thing that popped into their head, they would actually try to design cards in a way that would reduce (and hopefully eliminate) the need to ban cards in Standard
Catching a ban to end Eldrazi Winter in Modern, the Eye restricts the cards you can play severely in exchange for an amazing mana advantage
Thus, a CT scan can easily identify the foil layer of a Pokemon card inside a product
You can also evolve a basic normally, then use Wallys on the same turn to evolve it to a stage two