Its fine to encase a trading card in plastic and get a standardized look at the condition under the watchful eye of an expert, but at that point, you are taking the item off the table as a playable card
"Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack." You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type
Your deck features plenty of removal and quick creatures for a fast-paced, attack-heavy game
Clearly, there are significant upsides to running Goryos Vengeance as a Grixis MTG deck rather than an Esper one
What do the format rules mean when they list legal sets? In MTG, a set refers to a collection of cards that are published by WOTC
It seems to suggest that the Illuminary is either in disrepair or completely destroyed