>>45559505It's not just the star rule. It's also the unique art, good selection of pokemon, unique card layout, holo black borders, and overall just how distinguishable they are.
>>45559561I don't recall any of the gold stars being draw by Ken Sugimori.
In fact I think he barely drew anything specifically for the TCG since Pokemon switched to digital drawings. They just copy paste his all purpose art onto the cards.
Pic related is the only one I can recall that's newer than Skyridge.
