Pokemon TCG: Sun & Moon Forest Shadow Theme Deck (Retail Edition)

Board Game Geek Rating: 5.90
Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 6.14
Players: 2 to 2
Content Notes: Retail Edition of Pokemon TCG Forest Shadow Theme Deck includes 60 card deck, 1 card checklist, 1 metallic coin, 2-player playmat and rulesheet, 1 code card to use onlaine, 1 deck box, and damage counters.

Pokmon is one of several Collectible Card Games based upon Japanese anime that have found success internationally, and is one of the longest surviving CCGs currently available. In fact, Pokmon was one of the first Collectible Card Games to offer any competition to the market dominance of Magic: The Gathering, even though most of the people who buy the product do not play the game, choosing instead to collect their favorite characters from the franchise the game is based upon.[citation needed]

The object of the game is to play your Pokmon cards, that represent different creatures, to battle against each other. The first player to “knock out” (defeat) six opposing Pokmon wins the game. You play the game with a deck of sixty cards that represent your Pokmon, as well as Trainer cards and Energy cards. Trainer cards affect the game, players or Pokmon in different ways, most of them temporary, while Energy cards act as the resources in the game.

You start the game by drawing seven cards. Each player picks a Basic Pokmon from their hand and places it in front of them to start. This is called the Active Pokmon and is the one currently dueling. Players can also place other Basic Pokmon to fill up the five slots on their “Bench”. Six cards are then set aside to act as Prizes. Each time you defeat one of your opponents Pokmon, you get to draw one of these Prize cards. Players take alternating turns during which they can:

put Pokmon in play on their Bench

place an Energy card on one of their Pokmon (once per turn)

play Trainer cards

evolve one of their Pokmon

retreat – Have their Active Pokmon trade places with one on the Bench (usually at the cost of Energy cards)

In addition to Basic Pokmon cards, there are also Evolution cards, which depict evolved forms of Basic Pokmon (or sometimes other Evolved Pokmon). A player can evolve a Pokmon by laying a corresponding Evolution card onto another Pokmon card in play. This can only be done once per turn per Pokmon, and only if the Pokmon has been in play at least one entire turn. The Evolved Pokmon retains any damage and Energy cards, but loses any Special Conditions affecting it, and the card text completely replaces the previous card.

The last action a player takes during their turn, if they choose, is to have their Active Pokmon use one of its abilities to attack the other players Active Pokmon. Attacks can only be used if the Pokmon has enough Energy cards of the right type attached to it to meet the requirements for the attack; each attack has different requirements and effects that are listed on the card. Most attacks will do some amount of damage to the Defending Pokmon; if defeated, the Defending Pokmon is replaced with another Pokmon from the Bench, and the attacker draws a Prize card. If either the attacker draws their last Prize card or the Defender cannot replace the Active Pokmon (due to an empty Bench), the attacker has won the game.

There are many different varieties of Pokmon available and several different forms of each one, each with different attacks, abilities and characteristics, allowing for many different possible outcomes. Gotta collect ,em all!

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