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Its a little wild

Rather than one clear strategy, this deck gives you a large number of options for overtaking your opponent

While I guess you could try to flip it into a 3/4, and that might be the right line in some situations, I think there would be decks (at least in Standard) that would play the front side as a sorcery

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)