The texture is different, the colors are different (they fail the dot test), theyre glossier, and they glow under a black/UV light
This is playable in the role of a tutor if you are truly desperate
Valakut Exploration is basically a personal Howling Mine for landfall decks, but it can potentially draw multiple cards if you make multiple land drops
It also helps to mitigate the problem of your draw for the turn being an unwanted land later in the game
A station symbol means As long as this permanent has N or more charge counters on it, it has [abilities], where N is the number inside the symbol and [abilities] are all the abilities found inside the same striation as that symbol
Or print them onto some fun patterned cardstock (the kind where it's white/blank on one side and colorful on the other) so the finished Pokemon cards look like they have unique and custom Pokemon sleeves