Wizards of the Coasts Stance on Proxies While Wizards of the Coast disallows proxies in official tournaments, ProxyKing.bizs products are perfect for casual play and personal collection enhancement
I personally believe synergy plays the most important part in deckbuilding and many times some theoretically weaker cards can have so great synergy with your deck/strategy that they can be greater options than the general best overall cards (and can be a super budget option too, as they only work with too specific decks/strategies.) Synergy applies to all categories analyzed in this article but also to cards that do not fit in any of the categories above but has a unique utility
Notably, while these Cids are the same card, you can have any number of Cid, Timeless Artificer cards within a single deck
Simple cantrips like Opt and Preordain become powerful card draw spells, and since Matoya doesnt have a once per turn restriction, you can draw cards throughout your turn with effects like Search for Azcanta, Retreat to Coralhelm, and Palantr of Orthanc
Copy that card
Edgar provides some pseudo-wrath-protection: If your board incites the Wrath of God, Edgar Markov's Coffin helps rebuild by generating a couple tokens
