Strategies
1. At the beginning of the game you should pick a starting
pokemon with a low retreat cost and a low cost for its attacks. Machop
is probably the perfect starting pokemon. Its retreat cost is 1, its attack
cost is one, and it has 50hp. 2. Keep at least one pokemon on the bench
at a time, but no more than two if they don't have energies on them. The
strategy here is to first build up your active pokemon then build up your
benched. Once you have a benched pokemon built up you should put out another
benched pokemon and start building it up. 3. When evolving be sure to have
at least the required amount of energies on the basic pokemon to use the
evolved form's attacks. There is an acception to this, however, and that
is this: If your nidoran is about to be knocked out and this will be your
opponent's last prize you may evolve. However, if possible try to just
retreat. 4. Watch your opponent's facial expression. If he is smiling
then do something crazy like an imposter oak or a lass or a gust of wind.
5. Keep your own facial expression little to none. when you get a good
card don't jump up and down and say, "yahoo!" or something like that. You
can even confuse your opponent by smiling when you get bad cards and frowning
when you get good cards. 6. Use trainer cards as neccesary. If you see
your opponent building up a zapdos on the bench please do yourself a favor
and use super energy removal.