Gotta collect them ALL

The Pokemon trading card game has become popular after its original launch back in 1996 in Japan. The most appealing factor is that the game is played similarly to the way it is played in the animation series which captured the attention of young people. Its complexity is similar to games such as chess due to the fact that each player needs to know exactly what each card does, the way it can be used in addition to the lots of others obtainable & how to anticipate assaults.

Each Pokemon card have marked on them their assault abilities, powers, weaknesses & hit points. The card games has only 9 types of Pokemon cards in lieu of the 17 which were originally displayed. The card color varies according to the Pokemon type, for example:

• A blue card describes a Pokemon which resides in the water & has water abilities.
• A brown trading cards describes Pokemon with earth, rock & fighting abilities. * Purple trading cards represent psychic, ghost or poison type.
• Red as you may think represents a fire type
• Yellow cards are used for the electrical type.
• Silver or grey cards are used to represent metal, or steel abilities.
• As assumed, green cards represent the grass type of Pokemon or the ones related to nature, bugs & poison.
• Navy blue or obscure colored cards depict dark type.
• & white cards represent flying & normal types.

Another basic card classification shows that every player's deck has over Pokemon cards, they also have stadium, supporter, trainer, & energy cards which affect other players cards according to its abilities. For example:

• Stadium cards can block special abilities of positive Pokemon which will give an edge to some players over the remainder of them.
• Supporter cards are used like stadium cards but can be played each turn.
• Trainer cards permit players to bring back cards which have been discarded, remove energy from adversaries & heal destroy caused by assaults.
• Energy cards are mostly used to enable assaults.

Each assault requires a positive amount of energy which depends on the Pokemon card. Some cards have no color specified so any type of energy card can be used to enable the assault, while others have a color requirement in order to work.

As you can see there is a lot of factors which influence how a positive card will perform in battle, the best way to quickly become familiar with them is by thinking about the classifications described above & relating them to a specific Pokemon card in the deck which will enhance its assault abilities & give you an advantage over your adversaries.