Fakes have unnatural paper quality, which may let too much light pass through or create an unnatural appearance
Your goal should generally be to win using the strategy youve set out to use not on the backs of generically powerful cards with game breaking effects
Theres been no huge crashes of popularity either, meaning that box and ETB prices remain, for the most part, steady
The only time you can deplete the opponents life points is when there are no monsters defending the opponents side of the field and your monster attacks, if your monster attacks another monster with lower attack points or if the effect of a trap or spell card says so
My favorite choice is the new Ivy Lane Denizen/Scurry Oak combo, which generates infinite creatures and makes an arbitrarily large Treefolk
This is no doubt a countermeasure by Pokemon to combat the increasing number of resealed booster boxes making it to the secondary market