Pokémon Trading Card Game

The Pokémon Trading Card Game is a collectible card game in which players build decks and use Pokémon, Trainer, and Energy cards to battle.

Pokémon card: A game card representing a Pokémon, with attacks, abilities, and other battle information. Pokémon cards are the creatures players use to attack and defend.
Deck (card game): A set of cards a player draws from during a card game. A Pokémon TCG deck is a fixed-size collection assembled before play.
Pokémon Trading Card Game World Championships: The annual championship event that brings together top Pokémon TCG competitors from around the world. It is the game's highest-profile competitive event.
Pokémon: A media franchise centered on fictional creatures that people catch, train, and use in battles. The card game adapts Pokémon creatures and battles into a tabletop format.
Magic: The Gathering: A collectible card game in which players cast spells and summon creatures using resource cards. It is an influential rival whose resource system differs from Pokémon's attached Energy.
Energy card: A card that supplies the Energy symbols required to use Pokémon attacks. Attacks usually require Energy attached to the Pokémon using them.
Trading card game: A card game in which players build decks from collectible cards and use them against one another. Pokémon TCG combines collectible deck construction with competitive play.
Pokémon Trading Card Game Standard format: A tournament format that limits deck construction to cards from a defined, rotating set of releases. Standard is a principal format for organized competitive play.
Media Factory: A Japanese publisher that produced the original Pokémon Trading Card Game. Media Factory released the first Japanese Pokémon card sets in 1996.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game: A collectible card game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, centered on summoning monsters and activating spells and traps. Its rules and battle structure offer a distinct alternative to Pokémon TCG.

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