The original version of populate had you copy each individual unique token you controlled, but that ended up being too powerful, so we changed it to just copy a single token of your choice
The gold looks horrifyingly bad on most cards, but its just absurdly pretty with the Seventh Edition Ron Walotsky art on the old rocky-colored lands frame in City of Brass
So thats how my wife and I, who gladly joined in the hobby with me, approached it
You'd only be able to tell a card was Short Printed by comparing mass data on that individual card from different boosters
The white mana can only be used for Angel spells , so you won't be able to use it for anything else
The original setting was classic fantasy much like Magic generally is, which is much more in my interest wheelhouse than this high-technology, far-future Warhammer 40,000 setting