In Rarity Collection 2, it gets a massive rarity bump as a Quarter Century Secret Rare, allowing you to send monsters to the grave in style
Kihara Misaki places Pikachu in a dark surreal scene with strange dreamlike objects scattered around, and even Pikas face is rendered much more realistically, landing in uncanny valley
This approach is itself symptomatic of the overall power creep of the format, with average game lengths shortening
There are, however, a few exceptions
The format only uses cards from the sets released in the last few years, and once a year, the oldest sets are rotated out to make way for the new
You might find when opening boosters of Brilliant Stars that your energy cards are replaced with VSTAR marker cards- these are used to power up your VSTAR Pokemon