Expanded format (TCG)
The Expanded format of the Pokémon Trading Card Game is one of two formats used for officially-sanctioned Play! Pokémon events. It was added to the Standard format in the 2014-2015 season. It allows a greater number of expansions than Standard format but is not as unpredictable in card combinations as Unlimited format. It is also used in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.
It remains to be seen if Play! Pokémon will ever rotate sets out of the Expanded format, as they currently do with Standard format. Additional expansions are added to the current Rotation three weeks after they are released in the United States. Starting from 2016, they were added to the current Rotation on the third Friday in the month of release.
If a card in an Expanded-legal expansion is a reprint of an older card, all prints of the card can be played in an Expanded-legal expansion-legal deck (e.g. Aquapolis Energy Switch). However, some cards significantly differ in wording between older prints and newer prints (e.g. Pokémon Fan Club from Aquapolis compared to its Ultra Prism iteration); those cards cannot be used in sanctioned tournaments. The exception is cards that have received errata (e.g. Base Set Potion); all printings of cards with errata may be used in sanctioned tournaments.
Play! Pokémon requires players to play with cards printed in their region's official language (for example: players in the United States are restricted to English cards only, whereas players in Canada can use both English cards and French cards).
List of Expanded formats
- 2014-15 — Black & White onward
- 2015-16 — Black & White onward
- 2016-17 — Black & White onward
- 2017-18 — Black & White onward
- 2018-19 — Black & White onward
- 2019-20 — Black & White onward
Banned Cards
- Archeops (Noble Victories 67)
- Chip-Chip Ice Axe (Unbroken Bonds 165)
- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98)
- Flabébé (Forbidden Light 84)
- Forest of Giant Plants (Ancient Origins 74)
- Ghetsis (Plasma Freeze 101)
- Hex Maniac (Ancient Origins 75)
- Island Challenge Amulet (Cosmic Eclipse 194)
- Jessie & James (Hidden Fates 58)
- Lt. Surge's Strategy (Unbroken Bonds 178)
- Lusamine (Crimson Invasion 96)
- Lysandre's Trump Card (Phantom Forces 99)
- Marshadow (Shining Legends 45)
- Maxie's Hidden Ball Trick (Primal Clash 133)
- Mismagius (Unbroken Bonds 78)
- Puzzle of Time (BREAKpoint 109)
- Red Card (XY 124)
- Reset Stamp (Unified Minds 206)
- Unown (Lost Thunder 90)
- Unown (Lost Thunder 91)
- Wally (Roaring Skies 94)
In other languages
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