I had closed my Tokyo toy store by the time these were released, but my daughter was just becoming aware of Pokemon and so we would hit the local Mac every few days for about a month straight to buy Happy Meals and collect the cards
X , that were obviously viable and changed the way several decks were run (Gengar and Beedrill, to name a couple), and Flygon was established as the only non-SP deck to have been formed on a card out of Rising Rivals
The first thing I did was call my mom in Mexico
Destined Rivals After my horrible blunder that was Journey Together, I managed to pull something good and put together a nice deck for the penultimate set
Translation: you ramp into giant monsters two turns ahead of schedule and run people over
Then, Paradox Power stars Doctors twelve and thirteen, and this time the strategy is 'playing cards from anywhere other than your hand'