Pokemon Trading Card Game

Trade em, collect em, play em! Pokemon cards, the latest fad in Pokemon collecting! They are very rare, and very popular indeed! Read on to find out more on the Pokemon cards!

Here are some different series of Pokemon cards that you can get in each set.

 

Different kind of energy elements.

Starting the Card Game!

  • Shuffle your deck and draw a starting hand of 7 cards. Put the rest of your deck face-down in front of you.
  • If you don't have a Basic Pokémon card in your hand (it'll say "Basic Pokémon" in the upper left-hand corner), show your hand to your opponent, shuffle it back into your deck, and draw 7 new cards. Your opponent may then draw up to 2 extra cards. If you still don't have any Basic Pokémon in your new hand, you repeat this process, but your opponent gets to draw up to 2 extra cards each time!
  • You and your opponent each choose a Basic Pokémon card from your hands and put them face-down. These will be your starting Active Pokémon.
  • Each player may, if he or she wishes, choose up to 5 Basic Pokémon from his or her hand and put them face-down on his or her Bench (this is where Pokémon wait when they're not the Active Pokémon).
  • Put the top 6 cards of your deck face-down in front of you. These are your Prizes, which you take when your opponent's Pokémon are Knocked Out. You can't look at a Prize card until you take it.
  • Flip a coin to decide who goes first. You can use your special Pokémon coin, if you have one.
  • Flip over all the Active and Benched Pokémon that have been put on the table.

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    What can I do During my Turn?

    1. Draw a card
    2. Do any of the following in any order and as often as you like:
    3. Attack with your Active Pokémon
    4. Your turn is over now

    What Happens When your Pokemon is Knocked Out?

    Whenever one of your Pokémon is Knocked Out, put its Basic Pokémon card and all cards attached to it (Evolution cards, Energy cards, etc.) in your discard pile. Your opponent then chooses one of his or her Prizes (even if you Knocked Out your Pokémon yourself!) and puts it into his or her hand. If you lose your Active Pokémon, you must immediately replace it with a Pokémon from your Bench. (If you can't do this because your Bench is empty, you lose.) If your Active Pokémon and your opponent's Active Pokémon are Knocked Out at the same time, the player whose turn it is replaces his or her Pokémon last. The player whose turn it is chooses his or her Prize last as well.

    Card Sleep, Poison, and Parlayzed Forms...

    And you're Pokemon cannot be asleep and poisoned.. etc at the same time. Whenever a new effect comes in, the old effect is erased. EXAMPLE- Metapod casts sleep on Vulpix, and it falls asleep. Then the Metapod casts a poison attack on Vulpix. The sleep attack erases from Vulpix, and it is now poisoned.