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The Pokemon Trading Card Game is a strategy based card game where 2 players oppose each other and use decks that include Pokemon, energy and trainer cards. These decks can be created on your own using your Pokemon collection or by buying pre made ones. The goal is to collect all of your 6 prize cards by eliminating 6 of your opponents starting Pokemon.
Pokemon Card
1. Name of Pokemon
2. HP(Health Points) and energy type
Health points are the maximum nuber of damage a Pokemon can take.
Every Pokemon has a different energy type.
3. Stage
You can evolve Pokemon by placing the evolved form from your hand.
This can only happen if the Pokemon being evolved has been in play for more than 1 turn.
More on Pokemon evolutions.
4. Attacks
Every Pokemon has its own attack or attacks.
The number of energies and type of energy are required to preform attacks.
5. Retreat cost
This is the amount of energies a Pokemon needs to reatreat from the active position towards the bench.
In this case it is 1 energy.
The Feild of Play
1. Bench
This is where you can add basic Pokemon from yout hand.
You can also add evolved Pokemon on top of a basic Pokemon.
The bench also allows you to prepare your next Pokemon if ever your active Pokemon gets knocked out.
2. Deck
3. Discard pile
4. Prize cards
After you shuffle your deck you take the first 6 cards on top of your deck and put them face down on the left side of your field of play.
Once you kill an opponents Pokemon, you take a prize card.
Once a player has claimed all 3 prize cards they win the game.
5. Active Pokemon
The active Pokemon position is where your Pokemon can preform attacks.
It is also vulnerable to attacks in this position.
If no bench Pokemon can fill in for the active Pokemon position when the active Pokemon is knocked out, then the game is over.
6. Player 1
7. Player 2
The Deck
There are various ways to build your Pokemon deck though there are a couple of recommended or strict rules you must follow.
Firstly, the deck must include exactly 60 cards.
Secondly, you cannot have more than 4 copies of the same card in your deck except for basic energy cards.
It is recommeded that you do not have too many energy cards and also not too many different types but also to have enough so you can use your Pokemon's attacks.
It is also recommended to have enough Pokemon.
Laslty, it is highly recommended to have trainer cards.
These cards each have different properties and abilities that can help you do various things such as increase your attack power, defend yourself, search your deck for things you need and much more.
If you want to learn how to properly build a Pokemon Deck click here.
Firstly, the deck must include exactly 60 cards.
Secondly, you cannot have more than 4 copies of the same card in your deck except for basic energy cards.
It is recommeded that you do not have too many energy cards and also not too many different types but also to have enough so you can use your Pokemon's attacks.
It is also recommended to have enough Pokemon.
Laslty, it is highly recommended to have trainer cards.
These cards each have different properties and abilities that can help you do various things such as increase your attack power, defend yourself, search your deck for things you need and much more.
If you want to learn how to properly build a Pokemon Deck click here.
