Then reveal your face-down active Pokémon card and begin the battle.
To start the battle, flip a coin with your opponent to decide who will start first. Each player then deals out six cards face down, to be prize cards. Then each player places one Pokémon card as an active one face-down at the zone: 'Active Pokémon' and then you must place 5 more active Pokémon on your bench. If the starting hand does not contain a basic Pokémon, the player puts the seven cards back in their deck, reshuffles their deck, and again draws 7 cards, until one obtains a starting hand containing at least one basic Pokémon. Each player shuffles your deck and draws seven cards as a starting hand. Each player has a deck that contains 60 cards.
