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How do you play Pokemon TCG?

riordanfan
riordanfan Member Posts: 16
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I have the cards, but I don't know how to play. Can anyone teach me the basics?

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  • Octowen
    Octowen Member Posts: 631 ✭✭✭✭
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    @TheJeffers that thing you said about Machamp is WAY TOO TRUE. 😂

  • TheJeffers
    TheJeffers Member Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Octowen I think we have all been there as kids, whatever the card game. Or playing with younger siblings, relatives or friends.

    When I was in primary school we were a bit too young to have gotten in on the ground floor for Magic, Yugioh wasn't a thing yet, so our first exposure to TCGs was Pokémon. And kids don't care about rules or resource management. I have cool card, I play cool card.

    It's a lot easier to learn these days. Between the internet, instruction videos and online simulators there are a lot of ways to learn and play a card game. Anytime.

    Most kids in my school didn't even have a starter deck or access to the rule book. Their parents bought them a couple of Base Set booster packs, they shuffled the cards together and then drew a hand of as many cards as they felt like, slapped down their best Pokémon (unsleeved on the ground) and declared an attack.

    Oh, you don't have a Pokémon to defend you in your hand? I guess you die then, because humans die when they are attacked by Pokémon.

    Of course, those were the only opponents I had access to. That or try to teach my dad how to play.

    I did try.

  • Octowen
    Octowen Member Posts: 631 ✭✭✭✭
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    @TheJeffers yeah that’s exactly how it would go. That’s awesome that you tried to teach your dad 😂

    I did actually teach my mom and at one point she kept beating me but then I triumphed 🙌😂

  • riordanfan
    riordanfan Member Posts: 16
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    Thank you!! I am so glad for your help!!😁