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Yeah it's basically a question of terminology. In MtG, card "rarity" refers to one of the 4 rarities (common, uncommon, rare, mythic) and the rarity symbol changes colour to indicate these. it's a property of that card's design as a whole rather than of an individual card. Like you would say "cryptic command is a rare" and not "this cryptic command card is a rare". It's basically an indicator of easy/hard it is to find copies of that card

the various sorts of bling operate independently of this scale. things like foil, textless, promo, full art, alternate art, whatever you want to call this thing
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/573315ea.jpg

they've pretty much always been around, although recently there's more different types of them than there used to be