While cards are undoubtedly more commonly complex than in years past, MTGs overall power level has not risen egregiously, outside of outlier sets like Throne of Eldraine
Theme boosters are intended for constructed formats, where buying a theme booster for your deck's colors gives you a nice, hefty chunk of cards ready to slot in
Conclusions Of the Kanto trio, it is the one that has an approach of collecting almost close to Charizard, but still doesn't have many price exaggerations as it happens with its winged orange competitor
The ability only triggers once a turn, but its still a very potent way of turning a 1/1 that taps for one mana into a real threat over the course of a game
Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore raises so many questions, with none of them ever having been answered
I suspect the decline of Rivers Rebuke can be blamed almost entirely on Deflecting Swat, as nobody wants to invest 6 mana only to have their targeted board wipe pointed back at them for free, but I personally dont think this potent spell is all that much worse now than it was years ago