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While more recent Magic cards can measure their market value in the mere hundreds of dollars, these painted cardboard rectangles can boast prices in the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars

Something along the line of a scannable code on cards to verify authenticity would get the job done, but implementing the program would be costly, and it wouldn't help with all the cards that are currently in print (barring some sort of mass-exchange program, which would be even more prohibitively expensive)