I certainly hope this still blows your mind as much as it did blow mine
To me, this is easily the most uniform theming Ive seen from the game so far to the point where I felt as though I could place all the cards on a large surface to make a single image
What makes Battle Packs so different is that theyre the first set specifically designed for sealed pack play
I did this tally by searching on Scryfall with a year:20xy query (which provides all cards printed that year) do note that for 2023, we only have partial results: So, Fact #1 : Card output started to ramp up in 2019, saw a huge spike in 2022, and by August 2023 we've already seen more cards than any whole year prior to 2019
Not only does this game have a whole new region, but it also has a fresh new take on the classic Pokmon route
They give me specific instructions to correct the parts where I interpreted how a Pokmon should look differently from the official standards