Step 2: Buy singles, not sealed product
As a deck, it's heavily based on a historic theme (cards that are artifacts, legendary, or Sagas)
We have a couple ways that we can utilize our life-gain in the deck, and the two strategies work together, making this deck quite powerful in a variety of situations
Rampardos Garchomp ex Strengths: Combines two of the best Fighting-type Stage 2 Pokmon
I also found myself using more of the higher-cost cards than I typically do in a starter set, simply because of how the cheaper cards directly boost or funnel into the higher-cost cards in the set, making patience and timing even more important
Your best bet for player-to-player trades is probably meeting other MTGO players in another location, either online or in your LGS, and then initiating trades there