

The eleven types are: Colorless, Grass, Fire, Water, Lightning, Fighting, and Psychic. There are important parts at a Pokémon card, such as: HP or Ability.Ĭards can contain the type of the Pokémon which can be one of the 10 energy cards. You start with basic Pokémon cards and there are cards containing: "Stage 1" and "Stage 2" which means a certain Pokémon can evolve. Pokémon cards are the important cards of the game, but are useless to attack if there are no energy cards attacked. These three are used in the Pokémon Trading Card Game to trade or to challenge your opponent. There are three types of cards: "Pokémon", "Trainer", and "Energy" cards. When a player takes their sixth and final prize card before their opponent, the player wins the game. Each time a player knocks out one of their opponent's Pokémon, the player can take one prize card and place it in their hand. Prize Cards Prize Cards are six face down cards that each player deals at random from their deck at the start of the game. All cards in this pile must be placed face up. This can also be undone if there is a card that prevents the Pokémon from fainting. The discard pile is meant for cards that are out of play which means if a Pokémon is knocked out, it is placed in the discard pile which also includes energy cards that were attached to the Pokémon. Discard Pile Each player has their own discard pile. Same counts for Active Pokémon, if you have no Pokémon in play then your opponent will win the game. If your active Pokémon has lost the battle, then you can pick up another active Pokémon that you have on the bench. Bench At the bottom of the zone: "Active Pokémon" there is a zone named: "Bench" which each player may have up to 5 Pokémon, Trainer, Energy cards after each turn. If your opponent does not have an active Pokémon in play (either in the field or on the bench), then you win the game. You and your opponent must always have one active Pokémon as in the field or bench. If you draw only trainer or energy cards, then you must shuffle your deck and redraw again. Active Pokémon Each player must start with one active Pokémon. You must shuffle your deck first before you start drawing your cards. The opponent or you cannot look at decks for the purposes of predicting what cards will be drawn.

The deck must be placed face down at the left on the field.

Each player has a deck that contains 60 cards.
