Red cards offer some fun and potent options with their focus on samurai and the new modified and reconfigure mechanics
Luffy is now in a tight three-way race for the top of the format with Blue/Yellow Nami (~24.5%) and Purple Enel (~21.6%) rather than running away with the format on its own, but the gap between those three and everything below them is still wide, so GY Law pilots should expect to see this matchup often at a typical local and understanding the Impel Down curve is still worth doing even without hard matchup data
Finally, Esikas Chariot only makes a single Cat token in Alchemy, so its much less of a problem on turn four
Cheap commander protection like this has historically wound up very expensive, so try and grab a copy of this one quickly if you see a home for it in your own decks
Things like holograms and new borders are fine stop-gaps, but counterfeiting Magic cards is so lucrative that it's worth the time and effort for the producers of fake cards to figure out ways around these security measures
Shiny rares give many of the non-ex Pokemon a fresh coat of paint