The simplest protection is to buy from vetted sources with a track record, so you are not authenticating every carton yourself
Other times its a strategy - for example, knowing you want to play as many lands as possible or win using an alternate win method, such as milling your opponent so that they lose when they cant draw any cards
See rule 702.174, Gift. 702.174a: Gift is a keyword that represents two abilities
2007 Randomized Booster Releases of That Year : Planar Chaos , Future Sight , Tenth Edition , and Lorwyn Best Addition to Magic : Planeswalkers The plan for the Time Spiral block was that we were changing the rules of how the Multiverse functioned so we could power down Planeswalkers
The milling attack trigger is what gets me going
During its time as a legal card in tournament play, this Charizard GX card saw a decent amount of use as well