Much like the more recent Radiant Pokmon, Shining Pokmon cards feature Shiny variants in their artwork, and only one such card is allowed in a deck
Allies can do pretty much everything, with card draw, lifegain, removal, ramp, and protection
Rankle's Prankle also has the dreaded line of text "Choose one or more" so you can always customize it
Kotis, the Fangkeeper Kotis, the Fangkeeper is a very interesting card to build around, especially with Dragonfire Blade around
If you run Psychosis Crawler, you can drain everyones life totals just by attacking and drawing into more resources
unless your opponent is also running a Stall Deck (hey, it happens), their intentional is probably to take all six of their Prize Cards by knocking your buddies into submission