How do you play Pokemon TCG?

@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.