There arent any instants in the cycle, so in most cases, the first player to pay is the active player, followed by each other player in turn order
You can deploy your Thopteryx on turn two, then follow it up with key legendary creatures, safe in the knowledge that they can take refuge from removal under its broad bronze wings
Especially with cards like Discerning Taste: Which will bring your big creatures into the Graveyard faster so you can unearth them with The Underworld Cookbook
Then, along both sides of the card where the frame normally would be, are the nine Nazgul, ever watchful over the Ring.
Once you bend a holo card in half, it will bubble up on the holo
Note how the counterfeit Ancestral is much more dark respect to the original (no black dots inside a white letter) Another standard check is the mana symbol failed as well