Why are 23-24 AHL inserts slabbed on epack?

[Avalanchefan21]

All inserts, parallels, and Autos are slabbed
Didn't come out of non-epack boxes / packs like this

Wonder if this will become a standard, I hope not since I doubt anyone is going to fake/alter an AHL parallel nor auto

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[CeddieB]

So weird...makes sense for patches, but for these???

 

[BlindThomen]

Do you need to have an Authority account in order to get any physical cards in hand from this product?

 

[numbern9ne]

So weird...makes sense for patches, but for these???

It feels that the fact this is a very minor release from 2 years ago - maybe they were using this set as a test case for the authority for getting some bugs worked out.