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A card like Ignis Scientia will allow you to put another land onto the battlefield, and because it doesn't specify that it needs to be a Basic land, you can play something more powerful, like one of Final Fantasy 's towns

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)

Triggered abilities like Consecrated Sphinx's drawing a card

If control decks are dominant, you need a way to fight through counterspells and removal