English boxes have no such guarantee you can open an entire English booster box and pull nothing above a standard holo
Production: Variations in Manufacturing Japanese Pokemon cards are primarily printed by The Pokemon Company International (TPCi), while English cards are produced by various entities, including licensed distributors
One friend gave me his full collection
"This was the last of that old style [design], and there are a lot of people that only collect the old-style cards," noted Pratte
If using a thin piece of cardboard or anything similar for extra stability or if pushing 25+ cards, I'd recommend to consider paying for the non-machinable surcharge as well
Either of these cards blows all semblance of card parity out the window, granting the user so many extra cards and so much card selection as to make it almost impossible for them to lose if they are not killed quickly