Thinking back to my own childhood, the cards and Pokemon I feel the strongest connection to are ones I pulled myself, or, to a lesser extent, acquired for myself through trades / purchased from my LGS
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If you do, draw X cards, then mill X cards, where X is that creature's power
When it comes to how to get these cards, there's a few options: obviously you can open packs, but you can also spend Pack Points to buy specific cards, or use the (not great) Pokemon TCG Pocket trading system to swap with friends accordingly
Its really hard being a five-drop red haste creature with four-toughness in the same set as Glorybringer
Sauron, the Dark Lord also amasses Orcs 1 anytime an opponent casts a spell of any type, building up a single Orc Army creature token slowly but surely as the game continues