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Collecting Pokemon Cards: Overview And Tips

By Jill/Redterror117

If you have cards you either play with them or collect them. While both activities go hand in hand, sometimes it’s easier to do one, especially when you have a favourite Pokemon, or enjoy competing with other people. For me, I’m a collector of cards, mainly because I live out in a rural environment with nobody else to play with. As a collector, I am currently working on building a collection of Dragon and Dragon-like Pokemon, Pikachus and Pichus (rather stereotypical choices), Pokemon Promotional cards, and rare cards from the Base series to Neo expansion. Collecting a variety of different cards makes it easier to complete these collections, but sometimes I can run into challenges, especially with my Promotional collection (where some cards are either hard to find, are very expensive, or when there are simply too many cards in the collection). While making collecting difficult at times, they can add to the fun as well, not to mentioning giving bragging rights to someone who, for example has a complete collection of Base cards.

Collecting Pokemon cards is an easy hobby to get started with, though at times only the most dedicated will stick with it. The most important thing to do when starting is to find a particular type of card you want to collect (whether it’s a specific species, a type, or even an entire expansion). Do some research on your choice and see which cards are the easiest to obtain, and which are the most expensive. Next you’ll need something to hold the cards in while keeping them well protected. Either a card binder or a tin will do the job, but if you want your cards to remain in good condition, invest in card sleeves for further protection.
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Deck Review: Charizard (Platinum: Arceus Set)

By The Pidgeot

Hello there again, I am back with another pokemon TCG deck review. This time it is all about Charizard and its poke-body fire formation from the Platinum: Arceus set. Charizard is a card that has never been heard of in any major tournaments, but I think it is worthy of some praise. This card is a great card to build a deck around. If you love fire pokemon this is the deck for you, because the only pokemon you are going to want to put in this deck are fire pokemon. There are just a few supporting pokemon that I can talk about to help out this deck. The reason is because you ONLY want fire pokemon in this deck. On the trainer and supporter card side there are quite a few to help you out.

First of you guys need to know about Charizard and its poke-body “Fire Formation” What Charizard’s “Fire Formation” does is add 10 damage to each of Charizard’s attacks for each fire pokemon on the bench. The Charizard’s poke-body is the reason you only want fire pokemon in this deck. The strategy of this deck is to get as many fire pokemon out on the bench as you can to power up Charizard’s attacks. A full bench of fire pokemon can make Charizard’s first attack “Fire Wing” that only costs one energy to do 30 damage to a whopping 80 damage with a full bench of fire pokemon. Its second attack “Burning Tail” does 80 normally and with a full bench of fire can do 130 damage for two fire energy and a third random energy card; this attack can one just about every pokemon when equipped with an expert belt. To make this deck a lot easier to use, there are only a few pokemon to use and more trainers and supporters to use.
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For the Player and Collector: HS Triumphant

By The Pidgeot

Hello again, I just finished opening my HS Triumphant booster box and I must say I had fun opening it. Then again who would not love to open booster boxes. From this box I must say I got pretty lucky with the ultra rare cards. I pulled five, very good, very playable prime cards; Celebi, Magnezone, Machamp, Mew and Gengar primes. I even pulled three legend pieces completing one of the two legends from this set. But enough about what I pulled, I’m here to inform you all once again the ups and downs of the HS Triumphant Set. To me this set probably is a more positive set added to the pokemon TCG world than negative. So lets get to it!
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Pokemon Market Watch

By Kenny Wisdom

Today I thought I’d take a different approach with my articles and write about an often underappreciated aspect of the TCG: values. Whether you’re a competitive player looking to gather the most bang for your buck, or a collector searching for the cheapest way to complete your collections, or anywhere in-between, card values should matter to you. Knowing what good prices and bad prices are and knowing what cards are on the rise and which are falling is an invaluable skill. Today I’m going to note a few cards which you should try and pick up while they’re cheap, and alternatively, a few cards that you should try and sell now, since their price is only going to plummet.
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Call Of Legends TCG Set: For The Player And Collector

By The Pidgeot

So I just opened my Call of Legends booster box, and I must say that I had some pretty good pulls. Some say that this set is bad because it is full of useless reprint cards from the sets Heart Gold Triumphant, HS Unleashed, HS Undaunted, and HS Triumphant. Others may think that this set is good because of the amazing artwork of the cards in this set, such as the shiny cards. I will be telling all of my readers about the good side and bad side of getting a Call of Legends booster box.

On a pokemon TCG player’s point of view, this set of 95 extra cards is pretty much useless. Some of the useless reprinted cards are the reprinted starter pokemon from the Johto Region; Meganium, Feraligatr, and Typhlosion. These three pokemon are a great example of useless because of their attacks, you need to pay so many energy cards just to use an attack that does barely any damage that what it could be. Feraligatr needs four energy cards to do an attack that does only 80 damage with no extra effect.
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Top 5 Pokemon Cards In Black & White: Art

By Kenny Wisdom

A few days ago I wrote an article detailing the top 5 most competitively playable cards in the new English Pokemon Black & White set. As promised within that article, I’m back today to write about the cards that have the best looking art. I’m not usually one who cares for the art of cards (although I do have an unhealthy obsession with reverse foils and super rare shiny cards and the like), but I realize that this site doesn’t just appeal to competitive Pokemon players, and therefore my articles shouldn’t either. If you’re a fan of my articles solely for their competitive information, fear not, as I’ll be pumping out plenty of content for tournament players in the weeks to come.
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Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG)

By Matt

Released in 1998, the Pokemon Card Game fad began, starting with the Base set. Until 2003, Wizards of the Coast published Pokemon cards, which would explain the change in the card layouts. The trading cards come in booster packs of various numbers, the most recent being 10. This was most recently; other booster packs have only included 9 cards.

Each card had a picture of the Pokemon on the top half of the card, its name, type, HP, and information, like species, height and weight. On the older cards, the symbol for the set would be right next to the information below the picture. Later on, the symbol was moved to the bottom right of the card. The bottom half would have either moves or abilities, depending on the card. These moves would require energy cards, which would come in plentiful amounts with the theme deck that would be purchased.
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Pokemon EX And Lv. X Cards

By Anonymous

Pokemon Ex and Lv. X cards were the new versions of ultra rares back in the day. EX cards were a fancy way of showing a very strong and rare cards. You used to be able to use EX cards in decks but not anymore.

EX cards were only available in EX sets. Like EX Dragon Frontiers where you can get EX’s like Dragonite, or EX Sandstorm where you can get a Wailord EX. All EX cards have a holographic border and background. An EX card had EX after the name of the card. EX’s weren’t that hard to pull, they are like the ultra rare primes we have today. You can get them in any pack but the ratio of pulling one varied. They aren’t like normal rares you can get in packs they are ultra rares and sometimes can be very expensive depending what and how rare the card is.
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Shining Pokemon Cards

By Anonymous

Shining Pokemon cards are only available in the Neo Destiny and Neo Revelation sets. There are ten shining cards in all. The shinings are Charizard, Tyranitar, Celebi, Gyarados, Magikarp, Noctowl, Steelix, Raichu, Kabutops, and Mewtwo. This set is also very difficult to complete like the gold star set. It is hard to pull them from packs and can get very expensive if you think of buying them. The shining cards are very unique compared to normal holographic pokemon cards. The shining pokemon in the card is not colorized, that specific pokemon is just pure silver holographic but that’s just in the Neo Destiny set. In the Neo Revelation set the shining Gyarados and Magikarp are just shiny looking. They are different colors like Pokemon gold star cards.
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Pokemon Gold Star Cards

By Anonymous

Pokemon gold stars are the card versions of shiny Pokemon. On gold star cards at the end of each card name there will be a gold star; hence the name gold star cards. There are 27 star cards. The star cards are only made of specific Pokemon. The gold stars are of Kyogre, Alakazam, Mewtwo, Mew, Espeon, Entei, Suicune, Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Charizard, Umbreon, Raikou, Metagross, Rayquaza, Celebi, Groudon, Jolteon, Flareon, Latias, Latios, Gyarados, Vaporeon, Torchic, Mudkip, and Treeko.

Completing the gold star set is like completing any other TCG set but much more difficult. There is very few people who have completed this set. The gold star Pokemon are just shiny Pokemon converted into cards. Like shiny Pokemon the coloration of the Pokemon is different. There might be a big difference or sometimes you can barely notice the difference. Like Rayquaza gold star the coloration of the Rayquaza is black instead of green. Gold stars are extremely hard to get. They are only available in some sets. Like Pikachu star in Holon Phantoms, or Mew and Charizard star in EX Dragon Frontiers, or Celebi and Alakazam in Ex Crystal Guardians.
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