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How To Make Your First Pokémon TCG Deck

0 yes definitely hello I just love Pokemon whether it's the cards or the games of the plushies or any aspect of the Pokemon world it's just my jam, okay Pokemon is a great way to hang out with friends whether you're playing the TCG or the V. G. C. the game can be as casual as competitive as you like whether you're playing with a few friends or you want to try a Pokemon tournament on your journey to becoming a Pokemon master there are plenty of ways to play.

I could be a Pokemon master let's build a Pokemon deck together how do you build a standard Pokemon TCG deck the standard format is the most common way to play the Pokemon trading card game it's the format most competitive games are played in whether that be at your weekly Pokemon league regional championship or even the World Championship tournament itself so what is standard and how can I build the deck the standard format of the Pokemon trading card game is one of 2 formats used for official sanction to Pokemon play offense along with the expanded format standard format contains the most recent expansions for the Pokemon trading card game and rotates once a year usually after the world championships in August rotation cycles out the older sets to make way for new set so that only a certain number of sets are legal in standard at any one time this is to keep things fresh and to give new cards room to be played in addition to the regular expansions that are released every February may August and November there will also be a number of additional cards that are legal in any given season so that could be black star promo cards supplementary products and sometimes special expansion sets that come out in addition to regular sets in the past these have included sets like dragons of all generations and hidden fates let's look at the current standard to see what's legal.

What's legal in the standard. If you head over to the Pokemon website and check the TCG section you can visit the news page where you can find out what's legal in standard according to the site the current sets legal in the standard bar as of the filming of this video the sun and moon set team up on broken bonds unified mines cosmic eclipse the sword and shield set sword and shield rebel clash and darkness ablaze in addition the expansion set hidden faces legal the carts from detective Pikachu expansion black star promo cards numbered S. M. 158 and up and S. W. S. H. 0001 and up and functionally identical cards from the McDonald's collections so to check if your cards.

Are legal check the expansion symbol on the bottom left corner of the card if it isn't 1 of these symbols it's not legal you may notice on newer cards a regulation mark this is a new feature that hopes to make it easier to explain standard rotation going forward, for example, it's a lot easier to figure out if cards with symbols D. E. and F. are legal then by checking set symbols the first time this will be used as likely 8/20/21 of course more sets around all the time so be sure to keep up to date with what's legal the most recent expansion set champions path was a special expansion set released on September 25 1 thing to keep in mind is that sets aren't legal on release you'll have to wait 2 weeks or sometimes more for them to become legal and standard champions path became legal on October 11 weeks after release the general rule is that sets are legal the second Friday after they come out in the United States and don't worry.

I hear there were printing more champions path so if you missed out keep your eyes peeled for a second print run 1 thing to keep in mind is that you can if you have them use older printings of cards that are currently legal in standard on 1 condition the rules text on them has to be functionally identical to the card currently. In standard so for example if rainbow energy was legal in standard you'd be able to use any version that has rules text that refers to placing one damage counter on your Pokemon any versions with the older text 10 damage are not legal for play because 10 damage and one damage counter are distinctly different effects the final thing we need to check before we get down to building a standard pokemon dak is whether.

There are currently no band cards if we head on over to the official site we can find the TCG band card list any card under the standard subheading is banned in standard so we can not include it in our deck right now that's below but and Brycen man from cosmic eclipse and mismatch yes from unbroken bonds so now we know which of our cards we can play how do we build the deck. How to build a standard deck. Come on deck consists of 60 cards no more and no less we can have up to 4 copies of any names card when I say 4 copies of the named card that's exactly what I mean so if I wanted to play P. chew in my deck I could only have 4 cards names peek.

At you whether that's for sword and shield promo copies or 2 from unified minds and 2 from a broken bones I can only play for however I can still add an additional 4 copies of the promo detective peek at you as the name on the card is different it's as simple as that this also means that I can run for churchyard and 4 chars RG axe and still for more chars are V. as each of these has a different name text consist of Pokemon trainer cards in energy you'll need a combination of all 3 in order to build a winning deck again if you'd like to learn how to play Pokemon TCG I have a video that explains it in less than 15 minutes trainer cards can be further broken down into supporters items tools in stadiums well energy includes basic energy and special energy you may include any number of basic energy but special energy again follows the limit of 4 next you need some inspiration for which deck to build if you're building your first stack them pick something that inspires you who's your favorite Pokemon did you spot a cool way to win a game on a card. Jack inspiration.

If you're still not zoned in on what to build or if you don't know where to begin and then I'd suggest looking at picking up a few products to get you going the tried and tested combination of an elite trainer box plus a theme deck from the same set is a great way to kick start your deck building the theme decks contain synergistic starter decks and by opening some boosters of that same set from an elite trainer box you can be sure to open cards that will increase the potency of the synergies in the theme deck and potentially finish simply sets of needed cards the elite trainer box also contains all you need to play a G. X. marker dice and basic energy cards each type.

I recently reviewed the Pokemon trainer's windows tool kit on my channel and that too is a great option to kick start your collection. Building for success. To understand what makes standard decks check-in to help us figure out how to build our own let's take a look at the current most popular standard deck so she an EDP the success of your standard build relies on these key principles synergy acceleration consistency interaction synergies how courts work together in the ATP deck the namesake card or key S. D. I'll go and pull Kia provides our wind condition using the altered creation G. X. attack to ensure we take extra prize cards for the rest of the match so she envied provides the damage necessary to try and go for one hit knockouts with brave blade doing 230 damage this is enough to knock out most Pokemon and standard except for the biggest of the bunch there are ways we can set up to do more damage though and ways we can make this easier to accomplish acceleration is how we speed up toward our knockouts as soon as possible to limit 

The number of turns our opponent can take to try and win what makes a she and so good is that it can accelerate on its own in a pinch using the intrepid sword ability and it also benefits from ramp cards like metal saucer and energy switch powering up our Pokemon as fast as possible is the goal but to do this reliably we need consistency cards to pull off your strategy as smoothly as possible you'll want draw and search cards discarding your hands to draw 7 is always powerful so for copies of professors research are a snap include we also play quick ball to pull out our basics cherish ball for G. axes and Marnie as more draw power the final type of card to include in your deck is interaction cards these are cards like bosses orders which pull up the benched Pokemon from the opponent for your session on to knock out it's a great way to get around bigger Pokemon we can't one hit KO other cards that fall into this category art may while G. acts whose captivating wish ability can pull out Pokemon on to the opponent's bench and crushing hammer which can discard energy from the opponent's Pokemon if you can master picking the right cards in these categories to support.

Our strategy you'll be building for success whether you're returning to poke a monarch just getting started there's a number of great resources out there I'd recommend to get caught up. Resources. P. K. M. N. cards.com is an excellent database of card images to browse set by setting what's legal in standard you can use the search tools to find cards for your decks and get caught up on the latest releases, okay Jim is the foremost site to visit for more in-depth rules discussions card ARATS's rulings internment judge resources if you have a question about how a weird interaction works chances are it's already been answered there finally limitless TCG is one of the best places to find Meditech lists an archetype still supposed strategy content of a regularly updated results database there are many sites out there but these 3 are amongst the most comprehensive.

I wish you the best of luck on your Pokemon journey to become a Pokemon TCG champion let me know in the comments below what deck you'll be building with the new champions path cards and remember to use those code cards in your booster packs on the Pokemon TCG online game every paper products you buy comes with those codes to redeem for the equivalent online and playing online is not only completely free but it's a great way to practice building and playing Dax and so always remember to get as much of that training in as you can.