Pokémon Trading Card Game
The Pokémon Trading Card Game (or Pokémon TCG) is one of the most popular and steady aspects of the Pokémon franchise (next to the video game and animated television series). The Pokémon TCG revolves around buying, collecting, and trading playing cards with various likenesses of Pokémon on them. To play, a person must build a deck of sixty cards using a combination of various "Pokémon" cards (creatures that do battle), "Trainer" cards (which have special effects on them) and "Energy" cards (a method of cost). To win, a player must "knock out" six of their opponent's Pokémon creatures. A player can also win if their opponent no longer has any Pokémon creatures left to battle with, or if their opponent runs out of cards in their deck. There are also "Special conditions", which affect Active Pokémon. Not to mention trainer cards such as "supporters", which are usually human characters that can only be used once a turn. Other types of trainer cards include "tools", "techinical machines" and "stadiums".
Now unlike classic card games, like Poker, which uses a single deck of 52 cards, a trading card game (TCG) is constantly growing. New cards with new game abilities are released at a steady interval in order to keep the game fresh and alive. The only cost of TCG's, however, is that it forces a player to constantly keep in touch with the game, as well as having to purchase new cards from newly released sets. Players who don't keep up run the risk of falling behind other players.
Card Types
- Summary of Card Types
- Elemental Types
- Grass
- Fire
- Water
- Lightning
- Fighting
- Psychic
- Colorless
- Dark
- Steel
- Pokémon
- Dark Pokémon
- Light Pokémon
- Shining Pokémon
- Crystal Pokémon
- EX Pokémon
- Star Pokémon
- "Named" Pokémon
- Trainer Card
- Energy Card
Wizards of the Coast (North America) Sets
- Base Set - February 1999
- Jungle - June 1999
- Fossil - October 1999
- Base Set 2 (BS2) - February 2000
- Team Rocket - April 2000
- Gym Heroes - August 2000
- Gym Challenge - October 2000
- Neo Genesis - January 2001
- Neo Discovery - June 2001
- Neo Revelation - September 2001
- Neo Destiny - February 2002
- Legendary Collection
- Expedition
- Aquapolis
- Skyridge
- Wizards Promo Cards
- Best of Game Promo Cards
- Crosstrainer - Unreleased set
- Unnamed Wizards Set - Unreleased set
- Jamboree - Unreleased set
- Legendary Collection 2 - Unreleased set
Nintendo (North America) Sets
- EX: Ruby & Sapphire
- EX: Sandstorm
- EX: Dragon
- EX: Team Magma VS Team Aqua
- EX: Hidden Legends
- EX: Fire Red and Leaf Green
- EX: Team Rocket Returns
- EX: Deoxys
- EX: Emerald
- EX: Unseen Forces
- EX: Delta Species
- EX: Trainer Kit
- EX: Battle Stadium
- EX: Series Value Pack
- World Championships 2004
- ADV Seven-Eleven Promotional
- Promotional Sets
- Pokémon Box Toppers
- Southern Islands
Media Factory/TPC (Japanese) Sets
- Vending Machine
- Pokémon VS
- Pokémon*Web
- Movie 5 Deck - Alto Mare
- Movie 6 Deck - Jirachi
- Movie 7 Deck - Deoxys
- Japanese Promo Cards
History of the Pokémon TCG
The Pokémon TCG was created by Media Factory in Japan. It was first released in Japan in 1997. Wizards of the Coast, seeing a great oppurtunity to ride the new Pokémon wave, was licensed the game and introduced Pokémon TCG to North America in 1999. In 2003, Nintendo of America took over the game from Wizards of the Coast, and is currently releasing new sets for it.
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The Online Pokémon TCG Community
The PokéGym - Formerly the "Wizards Pokégym". Pokémon Organised Play representatives frequently post on the forum. Pokébeach-Great place for card scans and upcoming sets' news
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