In Europe, people still use these modified decks to play games such as Belote and Klaverjas, which originated in France and the Netherlands
MAGAMI's "Game Master" publicly assures the players that the situation is under control, and blames the incident on the hacker, Lucky Mouse
As stated in the news story, this was used on Japanese Pokemon cards before Wizards was ever involved
Gisela, the Broken Blade Gisela, the Broken Blade can be considered a 4-mana Baneslayer Angel
These older cards aren't too numerous, so a well-preserved copy could be worth several hundred dollars
It's theoretically possible that, if you were to weigh literally thousands of packs to choose your heavy favorites, and bought hundreds of them, you might get a slightly higher pull rate of rare cards than if you bought the same number of random packs - but I don't recommend it, for two main reasons: Most game stores don't permit you to weigh individual booster packs before buying them - mostly because it takes a long time and holds up the line