The set offered a massive card pool anchored by some of the most breathtaking artwork in the Scarlet and Violet era, a Pikachu EX chase card in three distinct rarity tiers that immediately became the talk of the hobby, and a supporting cast of ultra rares and illustration rares that gave both collectors and competitive players plenty of reasons to open packs
Dont blame usits totally legal to do this
It was, in fact, the last set to be printed without a set symbol on the physical cards
With flat surfaces and sleek, softline edges, theyre easy to assemble and stack flawlessly, outshining competitors curved, bulky closures
True, a good chunk of WotC collections I see contain fakes (like these prism-jungle holos, ew), but I would argue that its much more wide spread nowadays through everyone using the internet, as opposed to back then