If youre playing green, you have access to the best budget ramp in the game
Buddy-Buddy Poffin This card is one of the best in the Twilight Masquerade set with competitive players, giving them an easy deck search that not only helps to build up Evolved Pokemon quickly but serves as a psuedo tutor, specifically targeting Pokemon with 70 HP or less
So eventually, many, many booster packs from Lightning Clubs Nicholas and Brandon later, we finally have the required Pidgeys and Pu-Pu, and Im sufficiently annoyed by this epic time waster that I cant be bothered to describe in close detail just how efficiently we dismantled these guys with Fighting and Lightning types (even though their staples Snorlax, Kangaskhan and Chansey gave them considerable bulk!)
You almost always prefer to Discover into a Channeler instead of a Recruiter
Same, Same Of course, the upside of having multiple upkeeps is reaping the value of cards that are only meant to trigger once during each of your turns