But the steady rate of cards getting added in with old cards rotating out means that the format is constantly in flux, and if a current Standard isnt quite to your taste, its not too long of a wait until the format gets shaken up again
For reasons likely to do with the weight of packs (the texture and extra ink of an ultra rare can make packs weigh a few micrograms more, making it easy for nefarious sorts to otherwise filter out the better packs), for a few years Pokmon card packs have come with code cards (cards that have a QR code for the online version of the game) with borders or colors indicative of the quality of the cards within
There's something wonderful about the idea of having a small pile of 1/1 Lifelinking Vampire tokens, then dropping that Equipment, equipping, and tapping, so suddenly they're 13/13 Trampling Lifelinking Vampire tokens
When this card destroys a monster by battle, draw 1 card
Sometimes it impacts opponent delirium, and you even get some incidental lifegain which is never bad