(Egawa designed the Mega Latias in this set.) Whats more extraordinary is that the Gardevoir card was designed by an artist brand new to the TCG, Raita Kazama, who has previously designed incredible packaging and sleeves for the franchise, but never a card
These are: Abuelo's Awakening Cori-Steel Cutter Heartfire Hero Hopeless Nightmare Monstrous Rage Up the Beanstalk This Town Ain't Big Enough For better or for worse, these bans make sense for different reasons, and the general idea from WotC was to make Standard slow down a bit while reducing the power of problematic decks
By contrast, Standard in 1999 was not in a good spot
[10]: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield
When Klefki is in the active spot, neither player's basic Pokmon have abilities