How To Play Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) Learn To Play In Less Than 15 minutes!

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Pokemon The Card Game is fun, easy to learn, and inexpensive to play. Best of all, the game is a social experience for kids and adults alike, where players use math and strategy all the while stimulating their imagination and creativity.

This video will teach someone who has never played the game before how to play in less than 15 minutes. Luckily, the game is very straightforward.

Using a 60 card deck, draw 7 cards, choose an active Pokemon, use energy cards to power up and enable various attacks on that Pokemon, all the while placing and evolving additional Pokemon on your bench and using trainer cards for support effects.

Pokemon was created by Wizards of the Coast, the same company behind Magic: The Gathering. I feel the two games are very closely related, and would describe the Pokemon TCG as “MTG-Lite.” Imagine Magic The Gathering without instant, and without a second main phase, and this is very much what Pokemon TCG is like.

But unlike a game such as Magic The Gathering, learning Pokemon is easy to do, and the rules can pretty much entirely be covered in fifteen minutes.

[epb]

Had so many pokemon cards as a kid. Never actually knew how to play the game.

[johnlabosky]

This tutorial was VERY helpful... my 7 year old Grandson loves Pokemon and I wanted to learn how to play the game with him... Thanks for this.

who else came here because they were never taught how to play the game properly and realized they have been playing all wrong?

[andrewdeats]

I like how his most watched video is about pokemon rather than magic.

[TheRichardson]

Lol I'm disappointed that this video didn't start with: "many magic the gathering players ask the question: how do you play Pokemon the trading card game?"

[Hungarth]

If only Youtube existed when the game was released...

[hpbloodcraft]

I'm 30 years old and though I collected the cards as a kid, I'm barely learning how to play. Thank you for the simple tutorial and explanation! You are epic!

[areaprisoner]

80% of people who have pokemon cards don't know how to play

[TolarianCommunityCollege]

Quick correction in terms of order of play: Prize cards are drawn only after all mulligans have been taken, not before, and not before you draw your hand of seven cards. Apologies for stating this backwards.

[CrimsonFox]

There's an actual GAME!? i thought you just opened the packs, and stuffed the cards in your binder.

[xBeauGaming]

Thanks man! Now to start little man playing the cards he is collecting

[tinmanz]

My nephew have some pokemon cards.
I wanted to play with my nephew and learn him the game but we didn`t know how.
Thank you so much, you have been of great help.
So thank you.

[allennavas]

SO THATS HOW YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO PLAY THIS WHILE TIME? As a kid my brother would use "War" rules

[alexowo]

Pokemon players: "Pokemon is easy to learn"
YGO players: "I've just crawled out of hell"

[jincjin]

😢 my mum bought me a booster pack in '99, I finally learnt the game at 30.

[Giby]

The Pokémon TCG Online videogame is just everything Magic Online dreams of being when it grows up.

[Tryforlive.]

I learned more from the Professor then I did going to my college classes today XD

[OExplosion]

I still think it’s so funny how Proff is legendary in the MTG community but his most view video is about teaching how to play the Pokemon TCG.

[ScottDevonKane]

Just so you know, prize cards are placed after each player has drawn their initial hand and placed a Pokemon into the active zone face down. This prevents Pokemon from being prized before you get an active. As mentioned, you only need 1 Pokemon in your deck to be legal. If you prize it before playing an active, it would be impossible to continue.

Pregame order is as follows:

1- Determine who plays first. This must be done before cards are drawn.

2- Draw 7 cards.

3- In reverse turn order, place a basic Pokemon from your hand into the active area. Then place basic Pokemon onto your bench. If you do not have a basic, mulligan. Then your opponent does the same.Continue to mulligan until both players have active and benched (is possible) cards.

4- Place six cards from the top of your deck into the prize area.

5- Resolve mulligan DRAWS

These have do be done in the correct order to keep discrepancies from the game. Also to be noted, when you said that when a player goes to draw a card and they cannot, they lose. That is incorrect. Whenever a player goes to draw a card AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR TURN and cannot, they lose. You can play cards like Professor Sycamore with a deck of only 4 cards and not lose the game.

Thank you for bringing this game to the masses. I love the Pokemon TCG, and wish more people to join me in enjoying this game.

[owenh]

As a MTG, Hearthstone, Yugioh, Cardfight Vanguard, Hex, and Shadowverse player, this was one of the few TCG's I'd never bothered to look into, though I've always wanted to. Thank you for this video, now I can go play to my hearts content!!