The Dark Charizard card dates from the Pokmon TCGs Team Rocket expansion, which was released in 1997 in Japan, and was originally illustrated by Sugimori himself
The only logic we can see is that the High Class production lines are idle and have been retooled for the Deluxe set to increase capacity, it seems the 35 card per pack uses slightly larger foil flow wrap than regular packs, it seems they are trying to reduce packaging and packing time with these boxes
Of course, the deck has disadvantages against the rarities of Sword & Shield , with the use of the VStar and VMax cards, which are much more explosive and quicker to assemble than decks that have cards with a ''step by step'' '' with stage 2
In addition, there was no thoughtful moment of game play
Pikachu Illustrator The rarest items are usually the ones that aren't commercially available, and that was the case for the Japanese Illustrator Pikachu card
Sam, Loyal Attendant + Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit The partners with commanders of the Food and Fellowship Commander precon, Sam, Loyal Attendant carries Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit a bit in the food space