If you can find a heavily played (HP) copy, then you can probably snag it for about four dollars
Designed for use with Magic the Gathering, Pokmon and other card games
Jaden playing with a deck of cards given to him by a sick friend is way more meaningful then Yugi giving him a card for no real reason, and the manga does this with more then just Jaden
A lot of cheaper proxy prints fall into one of two traps: either the cards look washed out, or the printer pushes saturation too hard and everything starts to look like a nightclub flyer
If the layers are to be applied, remember that the status face-down changes copiable values, which means, it is applied in the first layer
This means A-Counters that seep into your opponents monsters and allow you to take control of them or even blow them up from within