Get familiar with the different sets out there - main booster sets, structure decks, special releases, all that good stuff
Otherwise, you simply need some solid Trainer cards to draw cards and switch your allies without retreat costs, since you'll want one Pokemon to load up your fighters and don't want to waste any time or energy cards
For the purposes of this article, cards that are face-up on the field, in the Graveyard, banished face-up, or face-up in the Extra Deck are good to go

I'm doing all the hard work) Break time's over, here we go Metapod, Marowak, Kakuna, Clefairy Dodrio, Seadra, Vileplume, Krabby Lickitung, Tauros, Weedle, Nidoran Machop, Shellder, Porygon, Hitmonchan Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all, yeah Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all, yeah Articuno, Jynx, Nidorina, Beedrill Haunter, Squirtle, Chansey (Pokmon) Parasect, Exeggcute, Muk, Dewgong Pidgeotto, Lapras, Vulpix, Rhydon At least one hundred and fifty or more to see To be a Pokmon master is my destiny Charizard, Machamp, Pinsir, Koffing Dugtrio, Golbat, Staryu, Magikarp Ninetales, Ekans, Omastar Scyther, Tentacool, Dragonair, Magmar Whoa, catch your breath man, shake out those lips It's downhill from here, just twenty-four more to go Now it gets tricky, so listen real good Sandslash, Hitmonlee, Psyduck, Arcanine Eevee, Exeggutor, Kabutops, Zapdos Dratini, Growlithe, Mr