These cards each and every one of them is a counterfeit, and here's how we could tell: Counterfeits have had a presence in Magic: The Gathering since the game's inception, and they're getting harder and harder to spot from a distance
Theres a lot to be said for sitting down at a table with unknown players knowing youre all going to have a good, fair game
We originally tried cards that fetched other specific cards, but as we found when we tried the same thing with double-faced cards (or DFCs) in the original Innistrad block, it's still too hard to have two different cards always show up together in a booster
Blue has very few options for answering an artifact outside of bouncing itthis is basically all you get, and its hard, as in exile, removal for a creature as well
The recursion is okay if you want a creature to come back that has a nice ETB or death effect