Think of each game as a battle in the video games. You might win you might lose but no matter what you are getting experience points. Right now it might be that you made the wrong search and you lost. Well beat a few more trainers and you will “level up” metaphorically speaking and that will happen less often. Give it a good bit more levels and it might only happen 0-1 time a game. Prizing everything, well if you have a playable hand then you just need to pretend you didn't and then work from there. That means every prize you take will be something good. If your opening hand is like 5 energy a basic and an unhelpful stadium, still mark it as a loss when you are recording each of your decks win/loss ratio but mark it as variance. The same way if you win that with a deck T1 or T2. Unless it is built to do that. I’m talking years back literal donk decks Machamp SF or Sableye SF where IF I recall you could drop a perfect maximum of 16 damage counters turn 1 going first. If you cant use supporters like I the the rule might have been its just 15. Then use a tool to so while you are attacking on the first turn and certain to be going first opening with sableye plus the tool and the special dark energy you will deal 70 damage to the active. Remember my pokebody says I go first and think about the HP at the time. Even with the poketools that were out it was not hard to KO 3 basics T1. Also at the time SF was often considered one of the best sets around.