See my best card draw lists for the other colors blue, black, red, colorless, and white
Unfortunately, the fakes do have a dot pattern that looks close to correct, so just using a jewelers loop won't protect you
While it might be tempting to try to buy the Fires Friends list and drop the planeswalkers to play Jeskai Fires (which is a top-tier deck in Standard), apart from Fires of Invention, Kenrith, the Returned King, Deafening Clarion, and one copy of Steam Vents, none of the cards from the Challenger Deck actually show up in Jeskai Fires
But really, however you choose to rank Hitmonchan/Scyther/Electabuzz is fine
Its a celebration of the game and the victory that saved the realm from the clutches of Ursula
The Dark Pokemon cards were a hit, but something about the bad guys having their own Charizard made the Pokemon even cooler and scarier