>>27240584There have been like 2-3 card formatting changes since back when the game started in the 1990s. Remember when every single card had an e-reader code on them? Around the D/P era they tried to introduce costless energy attacks. I'm pretty sure the icons have changed size over time and so has the font. Back then some words on the cards were just different colors for some reason too.
It's a lot more toned down now that there seems to be some sort of quality control. Compare the reprint of Slowpoke from Generations to the old base set version. If you ever played Magic, it's like how Standard cards have a template and Legacy/Vintage cards look pretty different.
If you interpreted it as "the metagame has changed so much since the WOTC days" then that's a whole different can of worms I'd be happy to get into.
