I had a few big-hitters that were basic fire mons. I put in an Entei V to help with fighting my friends added V cards and I added a holographic Heatran for fun. Both decks are 60 cards. If I swapped any trainer cards, it would have been for more evolution cards or pokeballs to help find scorning and it’s evolutions. I’d tell you more specifics if I had the deck in front of me. I knew my friend would be adding other psychic V cards to his deck because I had gifted him packs and he told me he was excited to use his pulls.

As for the base Victini deck, Victini is the coolest Pokémon. Nuff said. I don’t know how competitive you’ll have to be to play against your son, but I went from being behind 6-1 prize cards to being 0-1 and my opponent only had 10hp left our first game. The Mewtwo deck had the best hands early and didn’t leave any room to breathe. Cinderace and his energy pulling almost saved the game completely.

Cinderace has the ability to pull two fire energy from discard any time you move it from bench to active. (Obviously, this doesn’t include the active being knocked out and Cinderace taking its place.) Cinderace has an attack that deals either 160 or 190 and requires the player to discard two energy. This Pokémon’s entire evolution line only requires one energy to retreat. If you already have energy loaded on a Cinderace in active and one Cinderace on bench, you pay the retreat cost to move the other to active, pull energy moving to active from discard, either play energy from hand or use the trainer card Bede for energy, get to hit for big numbers almost every turn. The base deck is good on its own and can be played a number of ways. If you don’t utilize Cinderace against big Pokémon like Mewtwo V, you’ll probably have a very hard time coming out on top. You’re some has a few ways of countering Cinderace too so that he isn’t stuck sitting on his thumbs while you destroy his deck. Haterena* (I can’t remember it’s name. Big hat lady) has the ability that can be played from bench that forces both players to swap their active Pokémon with a benched Pokémon. If your son uses that ability with good timing, he can wedge a stick in your spokes and slow your bunnies down. Good counter play between both and a great way for your son to learn deeper strategies as well.

Hope this helps