hey guys captain here and to start out the Pokemon videos on this channel I'll make a video right here of how to actually play the Pokemon Trading Card Game because someone requested it I figured it would be a good place to start anyway to play you need to have a sixty card deck and I'll make a video on how to build a deck some other time but for now that's all you need to know you need a deck and you need an opponent and you start the game by drawing seven cards I should mention this deck is a pretty crummy deck that I use just for casual play against friends you know who don't build like competitive level decks or anything like that I don't have the money to buy expensive cards because some cards can definitely be expensive I should also mention that I've basically rigged this this hand I drew so you know even before I did this I already know exactly what card is in this hand anyway what you do at the beginning of the game you win through draw those seven cards you look to check if they're any basic pokemon basic pokemon arm will be noted somewhere on the card for example here it says basic and basically they're not evolved Pokemon so even if you can't find where it says in the card you know if you know anything about Pokemon you know say arbok that's involved Pokemon it's not a basic and you place it pick one and place it facedown as your active Pokemon and if you have multiple you can put them facedown on your bench you can have up to five pokémon on your bench set in total you left six Pokemon much like in a video game Pokemon battle if you don't have one of these you're going to have to show your opponent your hand and you're going to have to shuffle it back into the deck and draw another hand and your opponent has the option of drawing a free card presuming of course they also add a basic Pokemon and the other side of the field I set this up myself already but we did have a basic Pokemon so now we need to play six price cards and what the price cards are is whenever you knock out one of your opponent's Pokemon you take one price card from your own side of and this is the most common way of winning the game it's to take all of your prize cards there are some other methods but again this is the most common one I'm gonna focus on for now then you will flip a coin deciding who goes first for you know the sake of the tutorial I'll just go first most people actually play especially in tournaments don't use coins they use dice it's it's really good if you can get yourself a block of dice like this this is 36 dice and it can't the they're 9 millimeters it cost me I think like $13 but I probably overpaid a little bit because I've seen him somewhere for about 10 and if you don't want like the translucent ones I think I want to say there's some rule that requires you to have translucent ones with like rounded edges but if you just get like solid colors and you don't really care that much about it then you can probably get it for like 6 or 7 anyway so you'd flip a coin even is heads and odd is tails and then both players will flip their pokemon send your turn starts at the beginning of your turn you're always going to draw a card and if you have no cards left in your deck to draw then simply put you lose the game and that's one of the ways you can win it's rare that a deck is successful in a you know milling your your opponent's deck but it does happen there's one back in the format that actually is reasonably good and does that anyway when it's your turn you can do a whole lot of different things you can attach energy cards which I'll explain a little more in a bit you can play trainer cards you can play supporters now the current rules state that the person who goes first does get to play trainer cards and supporter cards if they want to it didn't used to be like that and most people don't like this new ruling but whatever you got to deal with it so anyway first thing to go with would probably be Lynette's net search so really similar to a very popular card right now that's actually legal to play in the format called Pokemon collector does basically the same thing you search your deck for three basic Pokemon and then you have to shuffle your deck afterwards so let's say we had an hour back in our hand so it's taken Ekans let's take an Eevee and let's go with a tangela and then you know shuffle our deck whatever not gonna really focus on it too much and then let's bench all these guys next we can do is we can play trainers we want to we have the supporter that lets us find an evolved Pokemon but you can only play one supporter per turn now in these old cards when they first introduce supporters it says supporter and really small text in the corner hopefully it'll focus but now they make it really obvious when it's a supporter it says it right up here and then trainers will just say trainer I think now it says like trainer item then we are changing this around and actually now supporters say like trainer supporter you know it says somewhere on the car that it's a supporter and we could play trainers and on the other side of the field the opponent has a Reshiram and a vole picks and the Vulpix has a lot less health so probably easier if we knocked out then so we have gust of wind which is really similar basically the same thing as another card that's legal in the format right now called Pokemon catcher you basically get to choose one of your opponent's benched pokémon and switch it with their active Pokemon so let's play that trainer we can play as many trainers as we want per turn but we only have that one in our hand it will be beneficial for us to use it so now there's really not much else we can do we can't evolve anything because a Pokemon has to have been in play for at least one turn for you to be able to evolve it so next turn we could evolve any of these Pokemon above this turn we can't you can attach energy to pay for attacks now I could attach really an energy to any of these Pokemon but it would probably be most beneficial for me to attach this feel now if we look at spheal here on the in the top left corner we got the cards named team aquas feel top right we've got 40 HP and it's type this symbol is for water and it'll be important because almost Vulpix has a weakness to water which I'll get to a bit then we've got obviously the card art and then we've got the card text some cards have Pokemon powers or pokey a bit pokey powers and pokey bodies or now the new way they do in those abilities and that's something that doesn't really require energy it's not like an attack but steel doesn't have one of those it only has one attack costs one water energy which is powder snow deals ten damage and puts the defending Pokemon which is your opponent's active pokémon to sleep and then the bottom is a weakness to metal weaknesses will always be based on whatever is denoted at the bottom of the card which right now is always times two it used to be times two and then for a while it was like plus whatever number would say in the bottom and now it's times two again it's resistance is anything it might resist damage from for example if we look at tangela if it's hit by a water pokemon it'll take less damage you know based on the resistance the retreat cost is how many energy you have to pay to retreat so the energy you have to pay it depends on whatever is next to the attack you want to use and you'll notice with some Pokemon like this tangler here it's grass and then these two white symbols those are colorless energy colorless can be any type so I could pay for that with three grass energy a grass and two waters and there's even an energy called double colorless which provides two energy but they can only be colorless and it can sometimes be a really useful energy card for really speeding up how quickly you can set up some of tax so anyway let's do that let's attach a water energy to a steel here and let's use powder snow and put the defending Pokemon to sleep another great thing about dice is you can use them as damage counters theme decks come with some damage counters but they're and they're okay if you don't have dice you know and you don't feel like getting them probably the next best thing you could use is coins you know penny can be ten damaged nickel can be fifty and dime can be 100 and since it says the defending Pokemon is sleep we status conditions work in the training card game is for sleep you turn the card usually counterclockwise but I don't think it actually matters as long as you turn it sideways and in between turns the opponent will have to flip a coin based on whether that their Pokemon will wake up or not and if one of your Pokemon is asleep like some Pokemon of contacts or abilities that put your own Pokemon to sleep you'll also flip a coin between every single exchange of turns the way confusion would work is your faced flips 180 degrees and before you attack you have to flip a coin and if tails you put three damage counters on that confused Pokemon if you are paralyzed your turn the other way you basically can't do anything but at the end of the turn you go back to normal and if you're burned burn and poison are denoted with counters poison puts 10 damage on the Pokemon between every exchange of turns and then four burn whenever that players rather whatever it's in between turns the person with the burned Pokemon flips a coin they get tails they take 20 damage it's the nice thing about some of the play mats is with the new ones that actually explain status conditions on the side that's one of the reasons I chose this play minute also because um it as you know markers for all the areas so I can kind of show that to you guys better and it's easier for me to explain I normally don't actually play with play mats anyway so now it's in between turns the opponent's Vulpix is asleep let's just let's just pretend it's still asleep and then they flip again it wakes up between turns but by this point it's it's my turn so I'll draw a card ooh nice team aquas walrein anyway now I can start evolving Pokemon if I want so let's see let's evolve our nice little Ekans into our balk here and it's also evolved team aquas elio or to make us feel into team aquas elio because if we use aqua trance we'd be able to knock out that volfix and since we've got it let's use our supporter define ourselves and evolved Pokemon so maybe let's find ourselves tangrowth I don't really know I'm not going to bother shuffling it right now and I'm not going to evolve that quite yet because it might be useful for me to have that stay how it is anyway we have a couple options here of what we could do we could attach another energy elsewhere the probably best to put that on this Tangela we could evolve that tangle up of course we don't want to we could have also attached the energy to Eevee and with its pokey power we could have found ourselves a leafy on because it's a grass energy but the simplest thing for us to do right now would be to use aqua trance and to deal 20 times 2 which would be enough to knock out this Vulpix here so the opponent would put that in their discard they'd have to choose a new Pokemon to play up before they get to start their turn and it meanwhile we get to draw a price card then you know I don't know what the opponent's up to let's just say they're up to something and for whatever reason our next turn starts maybe we want to retreat from sealeo so we can pay the retreat cost of one energy we can switch it with any pokemon we want on our bench let's switch it with Tangela not only this would be a really stupid idea but we can roll with it and so the game will continue on and you know I could use tangelos attack what I think you guys get the the gist of it it's really just about all there is that I can think of because I've covered you know how to start a game attacks what's what's - a pokemon card basically status conditions prizes so it's really about it as far as I'm concerned like I said it's a pretty simple game you just keep going until someone wins in some way or another actually there is one thing I forgot to cover and it's another type of trainer card called stadium card I think now they're denoted as trainer Stadium sometimes it'll just say stadium on top but anyway what those are our cards that you play right in the like the middle of the field basically and their effect can apply to both players although there aren't a whole ton of them in the format right now and just overall there aren't like an immense amount of stadiums though there have been some cool ones in the past just something you guys should probably know about maybe another thing I should mention is the lost zone this isn't a huge mechanic of Pokemon but still is one you know you've got your discard pile over here where it's cards that you've used and they're gone but there are ways to recover cards in the discard pile using some trainers or sometimes there are attacks that'll help you do so with the lost zone stuff and a lawsone is unrecoverable it's gone gone for good so uh that's really about it there are only a few Pokemon that are the notably use it like a mu prime Gengar prime uh Magnezone prime Pachirisu it's a pretty new mechanic overall I think it was introduced with the triumphant set anyway I hope you guys found this video helpful especially whoever was that requested it and meanwhile make some more Pokemon video here and there so if you like this video please rate comment subscribe check out my other ones maybe send this to your friends and I will see you guys next time