How to play the Pokémon TCG: A beginner’s guide

Learn the basics of playing Pokémon TCG, card types, and how evolutions work. In this guide, we'll show you how to set up a deck, attack a player's deck or their Benched Pokémon with a Pokemon of your own, and evolve your own Pokemon. The information in

Pokémon Trading Card Game, released in 1996

This game is for two players.

The rules are not hard, but they're not super easy, either.

Strategic depth: Medium

Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have been released on the Nintendo Switch. This Pokémon TCG beginner's guide will get you started for real, with learning basic rules of attacking and status effects. Evolutions will be no problem after this.

Throughout the years, a lot of Pokémon fans have gone through Pokémon phases where they stop for a while and then rediscover the next game. It's finally time to take up Pokémon cards in its tabletop form and experience what makes it so great. In fact, this may be the best time to start playing if you're a long-time player or experienced newbie: The Pokémon company is releasing an old set of your favorite classic cards with The Celebration! If you were ever a fan of the card games during its peak popularity in the 1990s, then you'll want to get your hands on these reissued favorites now. You will be very happy to reconnect with these characters from your past when you play.

One of the key reasons the Pokémon Trading Card Game has remained so popular over the years is because it manages to keep aspects from the video games involved without having to tone them down. This includes evolutions, shinies, trainers, battles, and status ailments. Entirely new critters like Alolan Exeggutor and Ultra Necrozma have been included as well.

This is how to play the Pokémon TCG. It's pretty easy.