Funnily enough, there are meme cards that oblige you to do some random things, like play rock, paper, scissors, sing a song or ask your opponent if you can do something. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if we get a card that obliges you and your opponent to play chess someday.
@@Elia2Tu magic the gathering had a card like that in its couple sets, i forget its name, but when it was played it required both players to set aside their hand, shuffle all other cards together, reset life totals to the starting 20 and play as if you just started a game. It was banned really quickly
@@fromryuk7785 the card that I mentioned about rock paper and scizors was not banned because it was just a little thing, but there was a card that was banned because it required you to sing a song every time you used it iirc
To play the game you need a pair of scissors and you must open them, put your deck in between and close the scissors, this is so much fun to do and I enjoy doing this on very rare cards
Let's face it. Almost all of us collected the cards instead of playing the game. I used to be like that... Then I got two decks that I use for train and learn how to play myself. And I played against my cousin.
I used to have Pokemon Cards but no one to play with. I could read, but not well enough to understand the rules and my mom could never make sense of them herself. I just shuffled and looked at them. One day I sold all my cards to a boy who was looking for Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Back then, I had no conception about that this was a scam.
You madman, you did it. ...now do one for Yu-Gi-Oh! I expect a hour long video explaining PSCT, missing the timing, If/When differences, and proper extra deck summon.
i remember playing pokemon cards with my classmates in elementary school, we lived in a poor country so no one had real cards, just those overpowered fake pokemon cards that were like 180HP - 340HP. The most popular kid had a card with 380 HP. the way we played it was the 2 players would pick a card each from their deck and put it face down on the table, count from 3 and then flip the cards over. The person who had the card with the most HP would get the other players card for himself.
@@Hraptor @Hraptor there r other variations of the game, this one was the method that grade 3-4 Elizabeth Seton students played, in Divine Light Academy, Pamplona Elementary and Central School students would play by having 7 cards in each hand, they would pick a card each to battle and "attack" by turns, so forexample person A had a charizard 190hp with a -80hp attack and person B had 220hp card with -90hp attack they would flip a coin to see who would go first and the game goes - A attacks, B is at 140hp - B attacks, A is at 100hp then they continue until the card is "knocked out" which is replaced by another card the person whose all cards get knocked out first loses
A pretty good summary. While starter decks are easy to come by, I see a few comments that mention using their own collection. With that in mind, I think it'd be good to have a video about deck composition. How many energy cards should you have, the proportion of basic, stage 1, and stage 2 pokemon, etc. It's not a firm set of rules, but it would really help players move on from preassembled decks.
@@conradoamano3446 exes, gxes, vs etc. are great ways to save deck space and have a very relevant pokemon from the beginning of the game. Only downside is they are worth 2 prizes so have some powerful 1 prize basics too
Praise be to the digital version. It's not as complicated as I thought it would be. After 25 years, i decided to learn how to play with the smartphone version:)
This video is awesome! Thank you so much. My husband, little brother, and I all started playing Pokémon cards and battling a couple weeks ago and some of these rules we did not know about!! We are loving the game!
I am trying to learn how to play for my nephew. He is 6 and in love with Pokémon. 2 days ago we went to the toy store and his recent biggest dream was to have Pokémon cards. So I bought it for him. He is very happy now and want to play with me. But we both don't know how to play. So I made up simple game rules in my mind and played with him. I also purposely lose to him because he becomes very happy when he wins. Now, I learned from this video that I should also buy myself an another deck to play with him properly. I guess he is too small to learn all the rules right now so I will wait 2-3 years to play with him properly. Thanks for the video
Hi! I'm a Pokémon Professor (Professors are the guys who staffs Organized Play events such as competitive tournaments and league meet ups), maybe this message comes too late and your nephew already learned the full game or lost interest in Pokémon but if that's not the case I suggest you to google the "Pokémon Alternative Play Handbook" which contains many alternative games which can be played with Pokémon cards, part of these games are very easy and can even be used as a gentle introduction to the basic rule of the original game
I have literally hundreds of Pokémon cards (would not be surprised if I have over a thousand of them) but never learned the game So I’m looking forward to this video
There were a lot of important rules I didn't know about the game that where left out, causing a lot of confusion. So much so that I had to look up multiple sources of the game's rules in order to full understand the game
I remember as a kid I made the decision that I liked yugioh more than Pokémon because of the fact that it translated to real life a bit easier and was fairly simple. I couldn’t really get the same affect from Pokémon (at the time) although I did enjoy the game boy games. I’ve always wondered how they managed to turn it into a full blown TCG and tbh I’m not disappointed. I’ll need to see a few real time matches to get more grasp of combos and what not but it does seem fun.
i need to know this fr, can you use cards from any set on a single deck? like using a card from idk silver tempest and a surging sparks on the same deck?
Yes, however in legal tournaments there are some set expansions that are no longer allowed for use. In March, when "jounery together" releases, anything from prior to scarlet/violet base set will be illegal for play and the prices for them will skyrocket. But yes, you may use a mix of sets and expansions for deck building and usage. Anything goes if you were to battle amongst friends, even using first edition if you so chose. I like to collect the cards, but once I learned how to play I fell in love with the game too. I haven't played in a while, but I still collect enough of each card to make potential decks with. I also collect each energy set, holo energies, battle coins, and damage die (because as unimpressive as they are, I do like some of them and die are just fun to play with in general).
thank you for making this video, i'm going to try to play with my friends. They got into it a few weeks ago and i had fomo, so i've started collecting since last week 😅
As an amateur Yu-Gi-Oh player who grew up mostly invested in Pokemon (I also watched vgc tourneys and stuff), I want to merge my Pokemon interest and my newfound love for TCG (which I got from playing Yu-Gi-Oh) by expanding into Pokemon TCG. I just didn't know how it worked. Thanks.
This is so different to the Pokemon TCGP app rules. Must require completely different strategy and tactics. I do kind of like the elegance of the simpler rules of TCGP.
So how do we get cards in our hand ?from deck? Or do just have some in the beginning and if so then how many can we have in our hand and where do we place our energy in our deck or in our hand FYI I have never played but I just wanna know for the future PLS ANSWER THIS
so like i get what the rules are, and this is more a question for people who play this game regularly, but what does strategy typically look like in this game? What are you typically building decks to do?
The main way to win the game is by getting all of your 6 prize cards (sure, you can always win by other ways, but typically you'd want to win by that rule, since it's the easier way) so you should build an entire deck revolving around doing damage to your opponent's Pokémon. That being said, the main struggles you'll have while playing this game are the energy attachment and the draw power. You can only attach 1 energy per turn and can only draw 1 card per turn, in a deck of 60 cards, so you'll always want to have trainer cards (usually they are the dominant type of card in a deck, going up to 30+ cards in a single deck) or Pokémon cards that can help you bypass those limitations. Examples of cards that could help you bypass those limitations are: Professor's Research (let's you discard your entire hand and draw 7 new cards, which can get you rid of useful cards, but sometimes can give you better ones), Ultra Ball (let's you discard 2 cards from your hand to search your deck for any Pokémon card that you want up to 1, same case as Professor's Research) or Malamar (it's ability let's you pick one basic energy card from your discard pile and attach it to one of your benched Pokémon). The examples are infinite, but hope you can have some notion of it by this comment.
I only play against my little brother, but I noticed some things that made me win and he lose almost all the time: 1. He has more pokemons than anything else in his deck (that's not ideal, cuz you usually only use up to 6 of them before losing the game, except counting their evolutions, and no matter what powerful card he pulled he was almost always with his hands tied cuz he couldn't find energy to attack). 2. Many different type pokemons is bad because you keep waiting for some specific energy but you couldn't put many so the chances of drawing it are way too small. Now, this is a mistake we both make but I found it relatively easy to counter with when you have many trainers/pokemons that call for you to choose energy cards from the deck (and I knew for a fact that he doesn't even have many of those). Also, I use the pokemons with most powerful attacks not needing specific type of energy, that way you have something to do no matter what you draw. 3. Also a stupid mistake he used to make (but maybe that's my opinion, someone might know how to use it well): putting more evolved pokemon than basic ones on your deck. As I said before, you gotta be able to play with whatever you draw, but sometimes I won just because he only found one or two basic types and some evolution that he couldn't place yet. The quickest games we've played. Also, not to forget that *6 of your cards stay unplayable until you defeat your opponent*, so depending on your shuffle abilities you might get too many important pokemons stuck, your other pokemons can't be just "fillers". I guess that's what I remember. I only bought a deck because he once appeared crying to me that I never spend time with him (we have a big age-gap but I was never that cruel to leave him to the side, really) so I just wanted to show him I cared. I never was interested in finding other kids to play so maybe it's all just commonsense but I don't know any real strategies.
Thanks for creating this video. I now am 100% confident I made the right choice when I was 10 to not learn how to play the TCG and instead just collected the cards.
Elite trainer box tends to have energy blocks filled with energies, im not sure of any that dont. Trainer cards come randomly in booster packs. A tin or collection box will not be guaranteed any trainer or energy cards, unless they are of a set that each booster comes with 1 energy. Online looseleaf collections are rarely bought for energies or trainers and thus often won't have many. There are some that sell only energy or trainer cards but it's not worth it. For quick energies I'd recommend elite trainer boxes. Though you could also visit your local card shop (if you have one) and they should sell energy blocks pretty cheap. Trainers will be a mixed bag unfortunately and are never guaranteed unless specifically hunted down and bought individually.
My understanding of the mulligan penalty rule is that if a player performed more mulligans than the other player, then that other player gets to draw cards equal to how many more mulligans their opponent took than them. For example, if Player 1 needed to take 1 mulligan and player 2 needed to take 2, then player 1 would draw exactly 1 additional card at the end of setup, while player 2 wouldn't get to draw any even though their opponent took a mulligan. Additionally, my understanding of Energy Cards is that you can play as many of them on your turn as you want, however you can only play one of them on the SAME POKEMON on any given turn unless an effect says otherwise. Just wanted to confirm that I understand these two rules.
I used to play back when sun and moon was the most recent region, but they’ve added some stuff to the game I think. Anyways, I’m gonna have to teach some kids how to play with the new cards they get from Christmas. (Their mom asked me to help lol) Wish me luck! 😅
I watched TCC Prof's pokemon tutorial yesterday and thought "that rules are the same guy should do this" and not 24 hours later, I am offically dubbing myself psychic
2 things I noticed that was missed out 1) You don't have to put a pokemon in your bench at the start of the game but it isn't ideal 2) If you try attack while confused and it's tails, I think you take 10, 20, or 30 damage
1) correct, that is why I said "may". 2) according to page 16 of the official rulebook: "If tails, the attack doesn’t happen, and you put 3 damage counters on your Confused Pokémon."
Dang... This video makes me wanna play the pokemon TCG again. I don't wanna have to get back into the meta again though. You aren't there for like, 2 months and the whole game changes.
Attaching an energy is just a fancy way of saying "place energy card under chosen pokemon card." It can only be done once per turn. To do so, you must either have the energy in your hand from the start of your turn, or have drawn an energy that turn.
Ik it's an older video, but I have to say this: 6:24 "Only your active pokemon can attack" Alakazam ex (151 set): I'm going to pretend I didn't see that
I just noticed, are You playing with the Battle Academy set? That's the same set i used to learn the Game, it's pretty fun and cheap in comparison to getting any box set since there is 3 full decks for 20 dollars
For those who are confused. Harrison Ford/Indiana Jones: If you want to be a good archeologist you have to get out of the library! You need to physically start playing the game. The more you actually play. The more you will understand!
You know, I devised some rules for a Rotation Battle format. In the Rotation Battle format, your starting hand must have at least three Basic Pokémon. You have three Active Pokémon and three Benched Pokémon. All cards that expand the size of the bench are forbidden. If your hand contains less than three Basic Pokémon at the beginning of your turn, you take a Rotation Mulligan, which does not reduce the number of cards in your hand like a regular Mulligan does. You have a marker below your three Active Pokémon called the Rotation Marker. Only the Pokémon with the Rotation Marker beneath it can attack or recieve damage or be affected by a Trainer card unless another card says so. Each turn has two Rotation phases: the Initial Rotation Phase, which happens after you play Trainer cards or attach an Energy, and the Defensive Rotation Phase, which takes place once your opponent declares an attack. To rotate your Active Pokémon, move the Rotation Marker below the Pokémon you wish to be rotated to the front. During a Rotation Phase, you may not move the Rotation Marker in such a way that it's beneath the same Pokémon at the end of that Rotation Phase as it was at the beginning of the Rotation Phase (no 360° rotations)
For a beginner, would you recommend sticking to one set of cards for the whole deck or mix and match? My son and I started collecting the cards recently and we are focusing on three sets so far: Fusion strike, Brilliant stars and Silver Tempest. Our understanding is we should first focus on building one color decks until we have a better idea on how the game goes. What about mixing the sets from the same series? Should we do so or try to stick with one having deck build based on Fusion strike when the other uses Brilliant stars? I hope my question makes sense. :) Thanks and cheers!!!
I started with a battle deck 1st. Which is one type pokemon set with a 60 card deck ready to play. I recommend that. They sell them by player level. 1-3.
Mixing sets for deck building is very very common so yeah go for it (You should look at which sets and cards are illegal for standard and expanded play tho)
I think one glaring issue i always thought was the active Pokemon dies and one goes from the bench into play if no energy is attached it effectively becomes a punching bag. I always felt like there was so many limitations because of the energy went away. This is one of the down sides of the game unlike it's competition magic the gathering offers more complex attack phases and more options for dealing with creatures
I can finally play this game! Then I realised that I am in india,where it is a mission impossible to get real cards,and you can forget about championships
Bro, Which part of India are you? There is a huge community of Pokémon TCGs here in India. Pokedex, tofutcg , tcgrepublic, Tcghub, pokevolt, beyondgaming, M2x i can name 10 more (all Indian websites to buy real Pokemon cards) I trade and sell Pokemon cards for my expenses. Get out more hahaha
Bro, we have real Pokemon cards everywhere in India. Lots of Indian websites. I buy trade and sell them. Those cheap ones from local stores aren’t real of course.
The rules are not the same as regular chess, unless a specific card says so.
En Pokésant - pull out a chessboard and play a full game of chess with your opponent. the loser receives 30 damage.
@@PopitTart_ almost as annoying as Shaharazad 😂
Funnily enough, there are meme cards that oblige you to do some random things, like play rock, paper, scissors, sing a song or ask your opponent if you can do something. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if we get a card that obliges you and your opponent to play chess someday.
@@Elia2Tu magic the gathering had a card like that in its couple sets, i forget its name, but when it was played it required both players to set aside their hand, shuffle all other cards together, reset life totals to the starting 20 and play as if you just started a game. It was banned really quickly
@@fromryuk7785 the card that I mentioned about rock paper and scizors was not banned because it was just a little thing, but there was a card that was banned because it required you to sing a song every time you used it iirc
With this i can finally play with those 6 years old pokemon card collection
Grab your scissors, open them, put your pokemon card collection between them and close the scissors
@@rocketpadgamerwith enough cards at some point you would have to do that individually.
@@rocketpadgamer 💀
Sell them
Or get a bigger binder I have all my other cards even dupes in a really huge binder
Finally! I can finally learn how to play this Pokémon card game!
Now where did I last my cards half a decade ago..?
To play the game you need a pair of scissors and you must open them, put your deck in between and close the scissors, this is so much fun to do and I enjoy doing this on very rare cards
@@rocketpadgamer we found satan....
@@rocketpadgamer if you cut the rare cards that just means the value goes up for me so thank you
@@iidoughnutholes3087
> find valuable card
> cut it in half
> sell both halves
> you have doubled your cash
@@TerraKnight27why stop at halves
Let's face it. Almost all of us collected the cards instead of playing the game. I used to be like that... Then I got two decks that I use for train and learn how to play myself. And I played against my cousin.
I’d play if I had someone to play..
I didn't know the rules so we just played it like an uno battler
I enjoy cutting pokemon cards, especially the rarest ones
@@rocketpadgamer you monster
Well the first thing I ever bought was a premade deck. The only problem is that I rarely had someone to play with, but I mainly tried to build decks.
Finally! Now more people will know how to play it! It's genuinely a super fun game and I wish more people played it.
No, why would someone wish an extremely toxic community to grow?
I used to have Pokemon Cards but no one to play with. I could read, but not well enough to understand the rules and my mom could never make sense of them herself. I just shuffled and looked at them.
One day I sold all my cards to a boy who was looking for Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Back then, I had no conception about that this was a scam.
@@MrDirt Oh, you got screwed :(
Were they all common cards?
@@MrDirt Channel picture checks out.
@@Otto500206 it's called profile picture
You madman, you did it.
...now do one for Yu-Gi-Oh!
I expect a hour long video explaining PSCT, missing the timing, If/When differences, and proper extra deck summon.
How to play Yu-Gi-Oh TCG,
"The rule is simple, don't!"
Digimon tcg too.
It's actually good. ikr?
Now I know how to play Pokémon now!
magic the gatheric can potentially be absurd too.
And another hour of different between OCG and TCG.
legitimately had no clue how to play. very happy for the 10 min. video.
If you get a bunch of Silver Tempest cards, try the Swords of Justice deck archetype. Smeargle and Gloria just makes it insane.
you know its a complex game when its 5 times longer than most other videos
Multiple rules is not complexity
@@AB-J i mean, it kind of does depending on the amount
just wait til the yugioh video drops lmao
@@Gamebuilder2000
I disagree, I’ve played many games with so many rules and I have understood them well
@@thechuckster664
That game isn’t complex, It is a hard game to learn, But just because it’s difficult to take in doesn’t mean it’s complex
i remember playing pokemon cards with my classmates in elementary school, we lived in a poor country so no one had real cards, just those overpowered fake pokemon cards that were like 180HP - 340HP. The most popular kid had a card with 380 HP. the way we played it was the 2 players would pick a card each from their deck and put it face down on the table, count from 3 and then flip the cards over. The person who had the card with the most HP would get the other players card for himself.
that is a much better,understandable, and a more fun way
How is that more fun when it butchers the game to a flip of a coin LOL 😂
he also do taht i live in srilanka
@@Hraptor @Hraptor there r other variations of the game, this one was the method that grade 3-4 Elizabeth Seton students played, in Divine Light Academy, Pamplona Elementary and Central School students would play by having 7 cards in each hand, they would pick a card each to battle and "attack" by turns, so forexample person A had a charizard 190hp with a -80hp attack and person B had 220hp card with -90hp attack they would flip a coin to see who would go first and the game goes
- A attacks, B is at 140hp
- B attacks, A is at 100hp
then they continue until the card is "knocked out" which is replaced by another card
the person whose all cards get knocked out first loses
A pretty good summary. While starter decks are easy to come by, I see a few comments that mention using their own collection. With that in mind, I think it'd be good to have a video about deck composition. How many energy cards should you have, the proportion of basic, stage 1, and stage 2 pokemon, etc. It's not a firm set of rules, but it would really help players move on from preassembled decks.
Buy a trainer's toolkit box. That'll give you a good idea. Some decks can run on as little as four energy, most run 12-16, and some run 20-25.
Don't they have to remain in the series?
18 energy cards should suffice for mono/one type deck
@@haroldsheedog1859 So, that's a total of 12 Pokémon (of different stages & not just basics), and a total of 30 Trainer cards?
@@conradoamano3446 exes, gxes, vs etc. are great ways to save deck space and have a very relevant pokemon from the beginning of the game. Only downside is they are worth 2 prizes so have some powerful 1 prize basics too
Praise be to the digital version. It's not as complicated as I thought it would be. After 25 years, i decided to learn how to play with the smartphone version:)
This video is awesome! Thank you so much. My husband, little brother, and I all started playing Pokémon cards and battling a couple weeks ago and some of these rules we did not know about!! We are loving the game!
Bro you are getting me the wrong way 😂
I am trying to learn how to play for my nephew. He is 6 and in love with Pokémon. 2 days ago we went to the toy store and his recent biggest dream was to have Pokémon cards. So I bought it for him. He is very happy now and want to play with me. But we both don't know how to play. So I made up simple game rules in my mind and played with him. I also purposely lose to him because he becomes very happy when he wins.
Now, I learned from this video that I should also buy myself an another deck to play with him properly. I guess he is too small to learn all the rules right now so I will wait 2-3 years to play with him properly. Thanks for the video
Hi!
I'm a Pokémon Professor (Professors are the guys who staffs Organized Play events such as competitive tournaments and league meet ups), maybe this message comes too late and your nephew already learned the full game or lost interest in Pokémon but if that's not the case I suggest you to google the "Pokémon Alternative Play Handbook" which contains many alternative games which can be played with Pokémon cards, part of these games are very easy and can even be used as a gentle introduction to the basic rule of the original game
"The rules are the same as 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel except for these changes..."
Only if a specific card says so
thanks for finally showing the the pokemon TCG, i knew it existed, and it was always at the back of my head, thanks TSG
10:27 This triggers me
Literally gonna say the same thing
Fr
I’m not gonna lie, I still have no clue how to play this game.
I'll have to watch this a few times.
Same bro
I have a Pokémon card box but I have same problem as you.. well I have to watch this over and over until I finally know how to play..Ig oh well
Your right
😂
I have literally hundreds of Pokémon cards (would not be surprised if I have over a thousand of them) but never learned the game
So I’m looking forward to this video
THIS was the video I was looking for, very well explained and cleared all my questions, thanks !!
Very well organized video, easier to understand than the videos on the official Pokemon channel
I watched this and im already a pokemon expert.
Thank you for making this tutorial!
There were a lot of important rules I didn't know about the game that where left out, causing a lot of confusion. So much so that I had to look up multiple sources of the game's rules in order to full understand the game
This was actually really helpful unlike the others videos I watched on how to play properly.
You made me start playing MTG, now I want a Yu-Gi-Oh vídeo
This guy, I like this guy.
He is THE GOAT of how to plays.
If you want to learn how to play something this guy probably has a tutorial
THIS is what i call a proper tutorial, finally..
People forget that this is a game that is actually played, and not just cards to be collected 😅
10:27 noooo why are the bottom 2 switched up :((((
2:17 you can set any basic pokemon on your bench during the start before you play any cards
as a guy who loves to play this, i must say this is well explained🙂
I remember as a kid I made the decision that I liked yugioh more than Pokémon because of the fact that it translated to real life a bit easier and was fairly simple. I couldn’t really get the same affect from Pokémon (at the time) although I did enjoy the game boy games. I’ve always wondered how they managed to turn it into a full blown TCG and tbh I’m not disappointed. I’ll need to see a few real time matches to get more grasp of combos and what not but it does seem fun.
i need to know this fr, can you use cards from any set on a single deck? like using a card from idk silver tempest and a surging sparks on the same deck?
@@brycekeith5653 ah perfect
Yes, however in legal tournaments there are some set expansions that are no longer allowed for use. In March, when "jounery together" releases, anything from prior to scarlet/violet base set will be illegal for play and the prices for them will skyrocket.
But yes, you may use a mix of sets and expansions for deck building and usage. Anything goes if you were to battle amongst friends, even using first edition if you so chose. I like to collect the cards, but once I learned how to play I fell in love with the game too. I haven't played in a while, but I still collect enough of each card to make potential decks with. I also collect each energy set, holo energies, battle coins, and damage die (because as unimpressive as they are, I do like some of them and die are just fun to play with in general).
thank you for making this video, i'm going to try to play with my friends. They got into it a few weeks ago and i had fomo, so i've started collecting since last week 😅
Nice i have been collecting pokemon cards since i was 6 im now 12
I collect the cards, but I'm having a hard time learning how to play. Thanks for this video. Very helpful.
2:25 "each player may have up to 5 pokemon on the bench at any time"
Note: unless a card says otherwise(like eternatus vmax)
As an amateur Yu-Gi-Oh player who grew up mostly invested in Pokemon (I also watched vgc tourneys and stuff), I want to merge my Pokemon interest and my newfound love for TCG (which I got from playing Yu-Gi-Oh) by expanding into Pokemon TCG. I just didn't know how it worked. Thanks.
honestly the best tutorial thank you ❤❤
This is so different to the Pokemon TCGP app rules. Must require completely different strategy and tactics. I do kind of like the elegance of the simpler rules of TCGP.
THANK YOU I finally know how to play after all these years!
So how do we get cards in our hand ?from deck? Or do just have some in the beginning and if so then how many can we have in our hand and where do we place our energy in our deck or in our hand FYI I have never played but I just wanna know for the future PLS ANSWER THIS
THANK YOU, IT IS NOW CLEAR HOW TO PLAY POKEMON.
This both confused me and helped me. Luckily, it helped me more, so thank you
Thanks for the vid helps me who is starting to play
so like i get what the rules are, and this is more a question for people who play this game regularly, but what does strategy typically look like in this game? What are you typically building decks to do?
The main way to win the game is by getting all of your 6 prize cards (sure, you can always win by other ways, but typically you'd want to win by that rule, since it's the easier way) so you should build an entire deck revolving around doing damage to your opponent's Pokémon. That being said, the main struggles you'll have while playing this game are the energy attachment and the draw power. You can only attach 1 energy per turn and can only draw 1 card per turn, in a deck of 60 cards, so you'll always want to have trainer cards (usually they are the dominant type of card in a deck, going up to 30+ cards in a single deck) or Pokémon cards that can help you bypass those limitations.
Examples of cards that could help you bypass those limitations are: Professor's Research (let's you discard your entire hand and draw 7 new cards, which can get you rid of useful cards, but sometimes can give you better ones), Ultra Ball (let's you discard 2 cards from your hand to search your deck for any Pokémon card that you want up to 1, same case as Professor's Research) or Malamar (it's ability let's you pick one basic energy card from your discard pile and attach it to one of your benched Pokémon). The examples are infinite, but hope you can have some notion of it by this comment.
@@Elia2Tu Yes, this helps, thank you. I didn't really know what kind of combos players were trying to hit in this game but that all makes sense.
I only play against my little brother, but I noticed some things that made me win and he lose almost all the time:
1. He has more pokemons than anything else in his deck (that's not ideal, cuz you usually only use up to 6 of them before losing the game, except counting their evolutions, and no matter what powerful card he pulled he was almost always with his hands tied cuz he couldn't find energy to attack).
2. Many different type pokemons is bad because you keep waiting for some specific energy but you couldn't put many so the chances of drawing it are way too small. Now, this is a mistake we both make but I found it relatively easy to counter with when you have many trainers/pokemons that call for you to choose energy cards from the deck (and I knew for a fact that he doesn't even have many of those). Also, I use the pokemons with most powerful attacks not needing specific type of energy, that way you have something to do no matter what you draw.
3. Also a stupid mistake he used to make (but maybe that's my opinion, someone might know how to use it well): putting more evolved pokemon than basic ones on your deck. As I said before, you gotta be able to play with whatever you draw, but sometimes I won just because he only found one or two basic types and some evolution that he couldn't place yet. The quickest games we've played.
Also, not to forget that *6 of your cards stay unplayable until you defeat your opponent*, so depending on your shuffle abilities you might get too many important pokemons stuck, your other pokemons can't be just "fillers".
I guess that's what I remember. I only bought a deck because he once appeared crying to me that I never spend time with him (we have a big age-gap but I was never that cruel to leave him to the side, really) so I just wanted to show him I cared. I never was interested in finding other kids to play so maybe it's all just commonsense but I don't know any real strategies.
@@rebecabggs top tier sister
One qualm I have - for confusion I believe, it’s damage and can be prevented with cards like protect cube, I think?
I wonder why we don’t have that many people who know how to play😅
This is super useful. I just got lots of pokemon packs. I'll be happy I'll be able to use my cards
Trying to get into this with my kid. So many rules😂 ordered a scarlet violet elite trainer box. Hopefully that has everything I need to get started.😂😊
Bro ty very much im trying to learn and im taking notes like its quartine and im listening to my teacher
Thanks for creating this video. I now am 100% confident I made the right choice when I was 10 to not learn how to play the TCG and instead just collected the cards.
He did it, the madlad actually did it.
If this isn't enough to subscribe, I don't know what is.
Bro i played by myself and still lost-
Congratulations, you played yourself
How
nice video; been thinking about getting back into this game.
I enjoyed this video. Couldn't find the advanced rules playlist yet. I think it may not be made yet?
Please suggest where to buy trainer and energy cards, the set what we brought do not have trainer and energy cards
Elite trainer box tends to have energy blocks filled with energies, im not sure of any that dont. Trainer cards come randomly in booster packs.
A tin or collection box will not be guaranteed any trainer or energy cards, unless they are of a set that each booster comes with 1 energy.
Online looseleaf collections are rarely bought for energies or trainers and thus often won't have many. There are some that sell only energy or trainer cards but it's not worth it.
For quick energies I'd recommend elite trainer boxes. Though you could also visit your local card shop (if you have one) and they should sell energy blocks pretty cheap. Trainers will be a mixed bag unfortunately and are never guaranteed unless specifically hunted down and bought individually.
We can add any pokemon on another pokemon?
The energy.. does it have to be in the hand on bench? Or do you only have energy if you draw it from your deck on your turn?
My understanding of the mulligan penalty rule is that if a player performed more mulligans than the other player, then that other player gets to draw cards equal to how many more mulligans their opponent took than them. For example, if Player 1 needed to take 1 mulligan and player 2 needed to take 2, then player 1 would draw exactly 1 additional card at the end of setup, while player 2 wouldn't get to draw any even though their opponent took a mulligan.
Additionally, my understanding of Energy Cards is that you can play as many of them on your turn as you want, however you can only play one of them on the SAME POKEMON on any given turn unless an effect says otherwise.
Just wanted to confirm that I understand these two rules.
The mulligan part is correct, you can attach only one energy per turn, not one to each Pokémon, hope I helped 😁
How to attach a energy
To attach energy, you need to add energy
There was a Hex edition, as I remember. Pokemon Master Trainer, or something.
bakugan?
@@kemcolian2001 Wrong series, man
I used to play back when sun and moon was the most recent region, but they’ve added some stuff to the game I think. Anyways, I’m gonna have to teach some kids how to play with the new cards they get from Christmas. (Their mom asked me to help lol) Wish me luck! 😅
I watched TCC Prof's pokemon tutorial yesterday and thought "that rules are the same guy should do this" and not 24 hours later, I am offically dubbing myself psychic
There's a ton of instances where you can say "unless it's stated otherwise" or "unless you don't" and it would be correct.
What's ur pokemon card series name?
Is Leon’s charzard different to a regular charzard in the TCG or are they the same thing with the name rule
Can you tell the exact link for the set you use with tokens and piwer cards
QUESTION: Why when you mulligan before the duel, why would the opponent draw an extra card per mulligan? What is the balancing logic?
If you do not put enough Basic Pokemon in your Deck, you are punished for it by your opponent drawing cards for free
“Only your active Pokémon may attack”
2023 Alakazam: This is where you’re wrong kiddo.
This actually a super good guide!
Can you remove poison by retreating Pokemon
2 things I noticed that was missed out
1) You don't have to put a pokemon in your bench at the start of the game but it isn't ideal
2) If you try attack while confused and it's tails, I think you take 10, 20, or 30 damage
1) correct, that is why I said "may".
2) according to page 16 of the official rulebook: "If tails, the attack doesn’t happen, and you put 3 damage counters on your Confused Pokémon."
@@TripleSGames Touche
The amount of confusion damage counters has changed over the years.
Don't correct others if you **think** you know the right answer
@@TripleSGamesthere is a official rulebook
Dang... This video makes me wanna play the pokemon TCG again.
I don't wanna have to get back into the meta again though. You aren't there for like, 2 months and the whole game changes.
So true, it kinda stresses me out lol
0:48 I can't be the only one that feels uncomfortable seeing that.
It's actually easy
No lie as a collector i cringed at the shuffling, but the explanation is awesome so I stuck around lol
How do you get those markers for damage and abilities
How to add a energy
To add energy, you need to attach energy
Attaching an energy is just a fancy way of saying "place energy card under chosen pokemon card."
It can only be done once per turn. To do so, you must either have the energy in your hand from the start of your turn, or have drawn an energy that turn.
I went to a shop to buy a pencil (I have pending assignments) and there i saw one pack of pokemon cards and now I am here
Thank you ive gotten so much better at pokemon
This helped me soooo much! That i liked and subbed! You are awesome!
Really graat explanation, thank you
Pat the DPM made me want to learn how the TCG works 😂
I can't believe I'm trying to learn this in my 60's, just to try and play against my 2 grandson's aged 9 & 10.
Can i use the heart of the cards here? The power of friendship to win?
Ik it's an older video, but I have to say this:
6:24 "Only your active pokemon can attack"
Alakazam ex (151 set): I'm going to pretend I didn't see that
I just noticed, are You playing with the Battle Academy set? That's the same set i used to learn the Game, it's pretty fun and cheap in comparison to getting any box set since there is 3 full decks for 20 dollars
I been waiting for this video for so long
For those who are confused.
Harrison Ford/Indiana Jones: If you want to be a good archeologist you have to get out of the library!
You need to physically start playing the game. The more you actually play. The more you will understand!
You know, I devised some rules for a Rotation Battle format. In the Rotation Battle format, your starting hand must have at least three Basic Pokémon. You have three Active Pokémon and three Benched Pokémon. All cards that expand the size of the bench are forbidden. If your hand contains less than three Basic Pokémon at the beginning of your turn, you take a Rotation Mulligan, which does not reduce the number of cards in your hand like a regular Mulligan does.
You have a marker below your three Active Pokémon called the Rotation Marker. Only the Pokémon with the Rotation Marker beneath it can attack or recieve damage or be affected by a Trainer card unless another card says so.
Each turn has two Rotation phases: the Initial Rotation Phase, which happens after you play Trainer cards or attach an Energy, and the Defensive Rotation Phase, which takes place once your opponent declares an attack. To rotate your Active Pokémon, move the Rotation Marker below the Pokémon you wish to be rotated to the front.
During a Rotation Phase, you may not move the Rotation Marker in such a way that it's beneath the same Pokémon at the end of that Rotation Phase as it was at the beginning of the Rotation Phase (no 360° rotations)
I just got back into playing the online version of this.
thank you i learn to play the the game you are the best
For a beginner, would you recommend sticking to one set of cards for the whole deck or mix and match?
My son and I started collecting the cards recently and we are focusing on three sets so far: Fusion strike, Brilliant stars and Silver Tempest.
Our understanding is we should first focus on building one color decks until we have a better idea on how the game goes.
What about mixing the sets from the same series? Should we do so or try to stick with one having deck build based on Fusion strike when the other uses Brilliant stars?
I hope my question makes sense. :)
Thanks and cheers!!!
Focus on one type first! Then as you both get it you'll be able to play multi type pokemon
I started with a battle deck 1st. Which is one type pokemon set with a 60 card deck ready to play. I recommend that. They sell them by player level. 1-3.
Mixing sets for deck building is very very common so yeah go for it
(You should look at which sets and cards are illegal for standard and expanded play tho)
I think one glaring issue i always thought was the active Pokemon dies and one goes from the bench into play if no energy is attached it effectively becomes a punching bag. I always felt like there was so many limitations because of the energy went away. This is one of the down sides of the game unlike it's competition magic the gathering offers more complex attack phases and more options for dealing with creatures
This is exactly what Pokemon tcgp game does, glad they made it digital
1) What cards need to be in those 60 cards which we choose? Can it be all v or Vmax or Ex cards?
I don’t know how to play the game but I liked the video
Great video, thank you. Where can I buy those damage counter markers?
local game shop or eBay
thanks! @@TripleSGames
The Elite Trainer Box includes everything that you need. Dice, damage markers, burn marker, poison marker, sleeves and energy cards.
Thx for The help Man. I still don't know how to play
I can finally play this game! Then I realised that I am in india,where it is a mission impossible to get real cards,and you can forget about championships
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Bro, Which part of India are you? There is a huge community of Pokémon TCGs here in India. Pokedex, tofutcg , tcgrepublic, Tcghub, pokevolt, beyondgaming, M2x i can name 10 more (all Indian websites to buy real Pokemon cards)
I trade and sell Pokemon cards for my expenses. Get out more hahaha
Bro, we have real Pokemon cards everywhere in India. Lots of Indian websites. I buy trade and sell them. Those cheap ones from local stores aren’t real of course.
I can't wait for him to explain Yu-Gi-Oh
Yeah, my brothers and I just made up our own rules. When I finally learned how to actually play, I decided I'd just be a collector instead.
but after you used an attack can you still attack with the same energies that you used in the other turn