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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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The Infamous VileGar Deck

By Anonymous

Here is a very famous deck used in the trading card game by TCG players. The infamous VileGar deck. The VileGar deck consists of two main pokemon, Vileplume and Gengar. VileGar is a popular deck archetype in competitive Pokemon Trading Card Game play. The deck centers around the synergy between the Stormfront Gengar and the Undaunted Vileplume. Spiritomb from Arceus is used to set up, Gengar is used to attack, and Vileplume is used to keep a continuous Trainerlock on the opponent. The deck has placed well in numerous Battle Roads at the beginning of the 2010-2011 season.
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A breakdown Of The Pokemon TCG Online And It’s Benefits

By Kenny Wisdom

Hello readers,

For those who aren’t aware, my name is Kenny Wisdom, and I’m a competitive Pokemon TCG player from Washington State, U.S. This is my first Pokezine article, but I’ve written several dozen articles for SixPrizes.com, and I’m a regular part of various Pokemon communities, both on and offline. If you’d like to read any of my other work, please search Kenny Wisdom on SixPrizes.com, or contact kwisdumb on the Pokegym or Heytrainer.

Today I’ll be talking to you about the Pokemon TCG Online. For those not in the know, the Pokemon TCG online game just came out, meaning that as of right now, for free, you can play the TCG vs. computer AI, using pre-constructed decks from the Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver era. For now you can only play against the computer, but in the future it’s been revealed that you’ll be able to play against other players with all the cards in the game. Even more, there will be prizes and tournaments for the game as well, so this is going to become a very key component to the TCG, particularly if you plan on playing competitively.
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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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Pokemon Black And White TCG

By Anonymous

Many of you heard of the next TCG set coming out which is Pokemon Black and White. The starter tins are already out so if you have a chance go to store and grab them! The tins are of Oshawott, Tepig, and Snivy. In each tin you get two Call of Legends packs, 1 triumphant, one random booster pack, a Pokemon figurine of whatever tin you got, and a Pokemon Black and White preview pack. In almost every preview pack you will get 5 cards. The cards are of Lillipup, Purloin, Pidove, Sandile, and Patrat. The tins are out now and the next release of the Black and White will be the theme decks with a shard holofoil card of the last evolutions of the starters which are Serperior, Samurott, and Emboar. These theme decks will be released on April 6th.
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How To Protect Your Pokemon Cards

By Anonymous

Do you know how to protect your Pokemon cards? When you don’t protect your cards properly they will get damaged! Which you don’t want to happen. To protect your Pokemon cards make sure they are in soft sleeves and then put them into top loaders. Or if they are super rare there are glass cases to keep them in crisp mint condition which good collectors should do. If you don’t have top loaders and you have sleeves stick them into the sleeves and put them into your binder for safe keeping.
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What’s in a Skyridge Booster Box?

By Brian Hsieh

Booster boxes give you an average amount of rarity between the cards you pull. When one purchases a booster box, they have an idea of what they’ll be getting within the booster box. Although the ratio is similar, the cards won’t necessarily be. Also, although certain booster boxes don’t necessarily come loaded with several ultra rares, the rarity of obtaining the booster box does make it more valuable.

While opening the Skyridge booster box, which is an older set and much harder to find (meaning it wasn’t cheap), I found that 36 packs won’t necessarily include holos such as Moltres or Ledyba. I also found that doubles, even triples, of rare cards are possible. Older booster boxes around the Ex era have included very nice box toppers, which are cards that come in a booster box that can’t be found in booster packs. Skyridge is no different, although their box toppers come in the form of a random, see-through, enlarged crystal card.
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What’s in a Call of Legends Booster Box?

By Brian Hsieh

Booster boxes give you an average amount of rarity between the cards you pull. When one purchases a booster box, they have an idea of what they’ll be getting within the booster box. Although the ratio is similar, the cards won’t necessarily be. Also, although certain booster boxes don’t necessarily come loaded with several ultra rares, the rarity of obtaining the booster box does make it more valuable.

While opening the Call of Legends booster box, which is the newest booster box in the Pokemon Card Game in America, I found that 36 packs won’t necessarily include holos such as Smeargle or Ninetales. I also found that doubles, even triples, of rare cards are possible.
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