The Pikachu ex card can do heavy damage if you have a full bench, but the Zapdos is a nice backup if Pikachu gets eliminated early
A Flareon pokemon card, the fire-type eevee evolution with flames on its back, pokemon card coloring page
The bad news: this can be quite a daunting process as a free player, as you're limited to opening two Genetic Apex booster packs a day (not including Wondertrades or Pack Hourglasses to reduce the cooldown on opening packs)
This type of larger deck size requirement is a very interesting mechanic in my opinion to shake up the design space a bit, posing a consistency/slightly worse card pool vs one extra card trade off
If you do this, make sure you keep the number of times you've cast each from the command zone clear for "commander tax" purposes
The downside of discarding a card might prove to be too much, but this creature is at least really interesting to play around with