Adjust based on your commander and strategy
Most combo decks try and win quickly and when they don't they are typically dead in the water
Pokmons only real competition in the handheld gaming space is in Japan in the form of Yo-Kai Watch, but outside Japan, Pokmon is still king
Battle for Baldurs Gate: Blue Blue has a bunch of cards in this set that care about your own board investments, which sees a marked shift from what blue is usually doing messing with other peoples stuff
Ask yourself, do I have enough 1 or 2 cost legendaries that I want to play as early as possible?
The prevalence of Illustration Rares and Special Illustration Rares in this era, and Alternate Arts and Character Rares in the Sword & Shield era, however, has spoiled us