For example, if you're building a Water-type deck, you'll want to include several Water Pokemon that work well together
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Huatli lost her spark, so we wanted to make a legendary creature card for her in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (as Ixalan is her homeworld)
But hey, this isn't my list, it's yours
In the end, I concluded that 5-6 Channels is probably the optimal number for a 40 card deck
Consequently, they saw the need to shake up the metagame and create a more balanced playing field
On the graphics below, the actual number of times a card appears on the sheet is shown in blue, the calculated value (number of pulls in sample / total number of holos or rares in sample * sheet size) in red: image758639 10.3 KB image758638 10.1 KB image758571 9.45 KB image758589 11.1 KB image758590 9.93 KB image758597 9.69 KB While a little bit of a correlation is observable, it is clear that the sample size available is not nearly large enough for these older sets to say anything for certain