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
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.
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
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!
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
My variation (that is not to be used in official competitions or the like): One person is to bring 120 randomly selected cards so that each player gets 60 cards total. You can have as many copies of any card as you want. When the active Pokémon is knocked down, they don't go to the discard pile yet. On your next turn, you flip a coin. If heads, you have succeeded one death save. If tails, you have failed one death save. Any damage against a knocked down Pokémon increases the failed death saves by one, including checkup effects. Any healing on a knocked down Pokémon increases the successful death saves by one. When at three successes, the Pokémon gets up to fight again at full HP but they take double damage (in addition to weakness and resistance), and then if they go down again, they are discarded. If they fail three death saves, they are discarded anyways. You may evolve a Pokémon you just put into play or one you just evolved. Not only may evolved Pokémon use their predecessor's moves, but the stats stack, so health or resistance can stack up. This means weakness also stacks up (additively). You may attach any number of energy to as many Pokémon as you want. Pokémon can have as many tools as one wishes. Attacking costs energy. Weakness also needs to check for the type of energy required for an attack, but it does not stack with the Pokémon type or any other instances of the type. If an evolved Pokémon reaches 0 HP, it reverts to one stage lower. When your opponent's Pokémon has failed 3 death saves or has been knocked out a second time, you take a Prize Card at random. If attacking while Confused, you flip a coin. Heads, it works. Tails, half the damage first, then apply resistance and weakness according to the rules above to your Pokémon. Any knockdown from a failed Confused attack will instantly get the Confused Pokémon discarded.
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.
Oh yes, We have the difference of regular pokemon and V, Vstar, and Vmax. The lost zone Radiant pokemon Cards that exist simply to negate other cards V union Don't get me started on how abilities interact to form new effects.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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 used to use dimes as damage counters and the winner pocketed the money when they knocked out a pokemon. Also, I only ever battled one person ever. Everyone else played Magic and Yugioh
I collected the cards but never played with them, mostly because most of my friends didn't have pokemon cards. 😕 I have two tins full of pokemon cards and a portfolio full of cards with the addition of a few duplicates that I put aside for my boyfriend because he is just as much into pokemon as I am.
I haven't seen other videos say you can't attach energy to a pokemon you've just put in play. One official how-to video even shows it being allowed but doesn't discuss.
Do you have to attack if able? If I have the energy to attack but attacking will defeat the opponents active Pokeman. Allowing the opponent to make a stronger Pokémon as active Pokémon and that Pokémon will defeat me. Can I choose not to attack or do I have to ?
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
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.
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
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
"The rules are the same as 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel except for these changes..."
Only if a specific card says so
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.
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
😂
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!
thanks for finally showing the the pokemon TCG, i knew it existed, and it was always at the back of my head, thanks TSG
THIS was the video I was looking for, very well explained and cleared all my questions, thanks !!
You made me start playing MTG, now I want a Yu-Gi-Oh vídeo
0:27 that means i must use tangela in my bulbasaur deck
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
10:27 noooo why are the bottom 2 switched up :((((
This was actually really helpful unlike the others videos I watched on how to play properly.
I watched this and im already a pokemon expert.
Thank you for making this tutorial!
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
THANK YOU, IT IS NOW CLEAR HOW TO PLAY POKEMON.
He did it, the madlad actually did it.
If this isn't enough to subscribe, I don't know what is.
as a guy who loves to play this, i must say this is well explained🙂
Bro i played by myself and still lost-
Congratulations, you played yourself
THIS is what i call a proper tutorial, finally..
Thanks for the vid helps me who is starting to play
My variation (that is not to be used in official competitions or the like):
One person is to bring 120 randomly selected cards so that each player gets 60 cards total.
You can have as many copies of any card as you want.
When the active Pokémon is knocked down, they don't go to the discard pile yet. On your next turn, you flip a coin. If heads, you have succeeded one death save. If tails, you have failed one death save. Any damage against a knocked down Pokémon increases the failed death saves by one, including checkup effects. Any healing on a knocked down Pokémon increases the successful death saves by one. When at three successes, the Pokémon gets up to fight again at full HP but they take double damage (in addition to weakness and resistance), and then if they go down again, they are discarded. If they fail three death saves, they are discarded anyways.
You may evolve a Pokémon you just put into play or one you just evolved.
Not only may evolved Pokémon use their predecessor's moves, but the stats stack, so health or resistance can stack up. This means weakness also stacks up (additively).
You may attach any number of energy to as many Pokémon as you want.
Pokémon can have as many tools as one wishes.
Attacking costs energy.
Weakness also needs to check for the type of energy required for an attack, but it does not stack with the Pokémon type or any other instances of the type.
If an evolved Pokémon reaches 0 HP, it reverts to one stage lower.
When your opponent's Pokémon has failed 3 death saves or has been knocked out a second time, you take a Prize Card at random.
If attacking while Confused, you flip a coin. Heads, it works. Tails, half the damage first, then apply resistance and weakness according to the rules above to your Pokémon. Any knockdown from a failed Confused attack will instantly get the Confused Pokémon discarded.
Bro ty very much im trying to learn and im taking notes like its quartine and im listening to my teacher
I'm watching this a billion times to understand and still don't understand -_-
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.
nice video; been thinking about getting back into this game.
thank you i learn to play the the game you are the best
Basic rules: 10 mins long.
Oh no what have I gotten myself into
Oh yes, We have the difference of regular pokemon and V, Vstar, and Vmax.
The lost zone
Radiant pokemon
Cards that exist simply to negate other cards
V union
Don't get me started on how abilities interact to form new effects.
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.😂😊
I just got back into playing the online version of this.
This useful because played Pokémon with my little brother we have no clue how to play so we made our own version
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
WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR TY
Finally the rules. Now my greninja gx will come to some use
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
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.
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
Thank you ive gotten so much better at pokemon
This is super useful. I just got lots of pokemon packs. I'll be happy I'll be able to use my cards
Is Leon’s charzard different to a regular charzard in the TCG or are they the same thing with the name rule
Item cards classified as "tool cards" are now their own classification, thus giving us 4 kinds of trainer cards: supporter, stadium, item, and tool 🙂.
somebody really went out one day and thought let's turn this kid's franchise into a super complex TCG
You never saw this coming
_I SUMMON POT OF GREED!!!_
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 😁
Very helpful
What's ur pokemon card series name?
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?
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
Ty I have so many Pokémon cards but I never knew how to actually play it
What happens if a card size you win the Game
Can you tell the exact link for the set you use with tokens and piwer cards
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!
Wow, that’s way simpler than I thought it was
thanks this help me a lot.
Same! Unless a specific card says it didn't help me
I been waiting for this video for so long
When I thought playing pikachu in Smash Bross would help me understand this... 😪
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
Wow so many rules and complicated simplified rules is better
How to play danmaku or how to play Warhammer 40k
That means you tell me I don't have to reduce my opponent's life points to 0 in order to win?
I neeed that playlist! 😖
at least someone from the championships explain this to us
the way you bend those cards is literally killing me inside
now everybody will actually play the pokemon game!
I used to use dimes as damage counters and the winner pocketed the money when they knocked out a pokemon. Also, I only ever battled one person ever. Everyone else played Magic and Yugioh
This makes more sense as a videogame
I’ve played the game but it’s been many years
Really graat explanation, thank you
I collected the cards but never played with them, mostly because most of my friends didn't have pokemon cards. 😕 I have two tins full of pokemon cards and a portfolio full of cards with the addition of a few duplicates that I put aside for my boyfriend because he is just as much into pokemon as I am.
Can i use the heart of the cards here? The power of friendship to win?
Thanks 🎉🎉😊😊
Excellent video😊
Exactly! Unless a specific card says otherwise
But what does a $10k card do tho
The card will tell how many cards can the players take from their opponent when the pokemon is knocked out
I hope there is an online zoom class for this
Incredibly clear, thank you
This is one of the strangest chess variants I know.
💀
The mad lad did it!
Tryed explaining to my 9 year old. Its a no go as I noticed he was glitching out. For now I guess hes a collector 😂.
but after you used an attack can you still attack with the same energies that you used in the other turn
only took 8 years to get here :)
1) What cards need to be in those 60 cards which we choose? Can it be all v or Vmax or Ex cards?
you made this video before the pokemon tcg live beta came out worldwide
Thank you so much
I did remember i played this card game once when i was an child but wasn't very good at it
I haven't seen other videos say you can't attach energy to a pokemon you've just put in play. One official how-to video even shows it being allowed but doesn't discuss.
if u have a rare candy u can skip the turn of a basic pokemon into a stage 2
thanks
You should do more tcgs like digimon, vanguard and Yu-Gi-Oh
Honestly they should simplify by pick 6 Pokemon like a game/anime . You lose by knock out 6 Pokemon
My on my way to ruin some beginners day with the bdif
You are so good
I can finally play with bro
Thank you bro
Do you have to attack if able? If I have the energy to attack but attacking will defeat the opponents active Pokeman. Allowing the opponent to make a stronger Pokémon as active Pokémon and that Pokémon will defeat me. Can I choose not to attack or do I have to ?
Next video,
How to play Yu-Gi-Oh TCG,
"The rule is simple, don't!"