Luckily, they weren't the only ones working on the problem
Call of the Wild is my favorite as you can drop the biggest and nastiest dork in your deck for free without any counters, but Aid from the Cowl will drop the biggest anything so long as it's a permanent
The majority of Pokmon cards are primarily functional
The Pokemon Trading Card Game now functions both as a game and a way for collectors to get hold of some spectacular cards and artwork, featuring their favourite Pokemon
Before explaining the format for the tables, I would like to recommend the following two web pages which I found very helpful: Uncut Sheets : This page (created by a guy who goes by the name darkrai) contains a collection of images of uncut Pokmon TCG sheets, with information I use here

Check out Stephen Menendians deck from the 2011 Vintage Championships: "Stephen Menendians 2011 Vintage Champs Deck" Creatures (10) 3 Trygon Predator 4 Dark Confidant 1 Blightsteel Colossus 2 Vendilion Clique Spells (36) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor 4 Force of Will 4 Gush 4 Spell Pierce 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Ponder 1 Time Walk 1 Tinker 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Preordain 1 Fastbond 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 2 Sensei's Divining Top Lands (14) 1 Island 1 Flooded Strand 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Polluted Delta 1 Volcanic Island 2 Tropical Island 3 Underground Sea 4 Scalding Tarn Sideboard (15) 1 Ancient Grudge 2 Ingot Chewer 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Lightning Bolt 1 Mountain 2 Pyroblast 1 Red Elemental Blast 1 Tormod's Crypt 1 Yixlid Jailer Trygon Predators role is clear in Vintage: munching on Moxes