The Scarlet and Violet era continues this tradition with gold secret rares featuring modern artwork and designs
Overall, the "Magical Musketeer" strategy initially flopped, but it is finally getting its time in the sun in the modern meta
will do the same but in reverse order
These tokens were eventually replaced with textless cards, and with the unique designs, the tokens from this time are very valuable
Pumpking's design is quite simple, but diverges from the majority of generic pumpkin monsters by having multiple vine tentacles and a single, spooky eyeball rather than the usual carved eye-holes
Mienshao basically has one move that can do something no matter what other cards you have in your deck, I would try and have a few Pokemon with free retreat costs in my deck, use that Pokemon for awhile and then when the defending Pokemon is close to getting knocked out, move Mienshao in there and use Meditate to knock it out, Mienshao's retreat cost is low so you could retreat it back the next turn