Lamenting Wizards for making a politically correct change, players have been constantly pushing back against the terminology
Dusknoir has the Cursed Blast ability, which allows players to knock out their own Dusknoir and place 13 damage counters on any of the opponent's active Pokmon or any of the Pokmon on their bench
Harmonious Archon can often be enough to close the game, too, turning all of your 1/1 creatures into more formidable combatants
Whenever a creature with mentor attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power than that creature
Alternatively, save up enough energy to reset the game while only paying two mana, and then rebuild faster than your opponents
Maybe you realized this on an old card and thought, hmm thats cool, maybe you have never known this and this thread presents new information, or maybe youve known about this for awhile, regardless, I present to you all known* animals in Pokmon cards: Bulbasaur / Base Set - bug Magikarp / Base Set - worm Spearow / Jungle - worm Venonat / Jungle - wasp Eevee / Jungle - butterfly Weepinbell / Jungle - bird Exeggutor / Jungle - crab Psyduck / Fossil - fish Oddish / Rocket - frog Slowpoke / Rocket - fish and butterfly Magikarp / Rocket - fish/porpoises Squirtle / Vending - butterfly Super Rod / Neo Genesis - shark