This means that its a gold colored, foil treated, fully textured card
To me theyre just a cool piece of history of a game I enjoy And as to the cards you posted, I find the layout super wonky, but I love it
Its ability, Fleet-Footed, lets you draw a card once per turn when it is in the active spot, which encourages to you either actively be swapping it in and out of the active spot, or to power it up to be your main attacker
The Twelfth Doctor
It works especially well with Heartfiresometimes, we just grow a Dreadhorde Butcher up to four or five power and sacrifice it to Heartfire for somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 damage to our opponent's face (at instant speed, no less), and that wins us the game all by itself
People had clearly latched onto the fact that Pokemon cards were becoming more popular, and more valuable, and they were selling faster than stores could replenish them