Either way, it does feel faster, though, and a large part of that is the power creep
Cover art of pack will vary
For example, you can use all Grizzly Bears shown above in your Modern format deck
[F][F][C] Land Crush: 100 damage
The fact that a mid-2000s Gold Star, a 2002 Shining card, and a 2000 Gym Challenge holo all sit in the top 10 alongside modern SIRs and the legendary Base Set variants speaks to the unique position that Charizard occupies in the market: there is no era of the game where Charizard is not relevant, and there is no era where the best Charizard card is not among the most valuable cards printed
COLORLESS/ARTIFACTS We already saw some cool art for one of the artifact creatures in the set on the revealed booster packaging, and from the spiky armor it seems likely that the card in question is either Platinum Emperion or Blightsteel Colossus