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Following AI Cheating Controversy, Pokémon Announces Winners Of Card Contest
23.9.2024
Each year, The Pokémon Company holds a competition to find a new illustrator for their Pokémon TCG cards. Only in the last couple of years has this been opened to entrants from outside of Japan, and with that has come controversy. However, after a tumultuous period, the finalists for this year’s...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Streamlines The Card Game To Rival Marvel Snap
20.9.2024
The Pokémon Trading Card Game (PTCG) has been around just one year less than the video games it was based on, making it 27 years old this year. And while it generally hits the news when a classic card is sold for a ludicrous price, the actual competitive game it’s created for has never been more...
Pokémon's Latest TCG Set Is Teeny, But Packed With Stunners
2.8.2024
Today The Pokémon Company releases the TCG’s latest special set, Shrouded Fable. It introduces Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s strangest monster, Area Zero’s Pecharunt, who works in tandem with Teal Mask’s Loyal Three, Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti. Which must be a whole lot of nonsense if...
This Hisuian Growlithe Card is Peak Pokémon TCG Storytelling
15.3.2024
One of the coolest things The Pokémon Company sometimes does in its trading card game is make multiple cards whose images tell a story. It’s happened several times over the years, such as a set of Tepig, Pignite, and Emboar cards showing a Pokémon growing up alongside its family, or a Quaxly...
New Pokémon TCG App Fixes A Decades-Old Error
28.2.2024
I’ve seen thousands of Pokémon cards in my time, and I had become so desensitized to an error on nearly every card in the United States that I’d forgotten about it. If you’ve ever seen an American Pokémon card, you’ll know that the back of each features art of a Poké Ball opening up. These devices...
Pokémon’s New Mobile TCG Is Giving Marvel Snap
27.2.2024
The Pokémon Company announced quite a few things during its short but sweet Pokémon Presents broadcast on February 27. One of those announcements was for a brand-new digital version of the popular Pokémon trading card game coming to mobile devices later this year that’ll let you explore the card’s...
New Shiny Pokémon TCG Set May Have The Best Pull Rates Of All Time
25.1.2024
One of the great laments of the Pokémon TCG in 2023 was its return to brutal, unforgiving pull rates. After 2022’s Sword & Shield big finish, Crown Zenith, the Scarlet & Violet era ushered in the guarantee of a holo, but a vast diminishing in the chances of scoring anything better. Sets like...
There's A New Shiny Charizard And It's Going To Cost Everything
24.11.2023
Next year is to bring us a whole new set of shiny Pokémon, when the Paldean Fates set hits streets January 26. We already knew it would, of course, contain a shiny Charizard. But now we’ve seen it, and oh god it’s going to cost so much money.Read more
The Best-Selling, Most Expensive Cards In Pokémon TCG Paradox Rift Set
17.11.2023
Paradox Rift, the fall set of Pokémon TCG cards, contains more full-art, top-quality, collectible cards than any set previously, and they’re tough to pull. As such, it’s no surprise to learn the rarest and prettiest of these are fetching some hefty prices. Here are the top 10 most valuable cards...
The Best-Selling, Most Expensive Cards In Pokémon TCG Set 151
24.10.2023
Special Pokémon TCG set Pokémon 151 has been in the wild for about a month now, meaning people have had time to get over the initial fervour, and the best cards have risen to the surface. A smaller set to collect, but with an ongoing release schedule for new products, this return to the series’...
Pokémon TCG's Paradox Rift Contains The Best Cards Ever, If You Can Find Them
20.10.2023
There certainly have been a lot of Pokémon cards in 2023. A year that began with Sword & Shield’s (SWSH) climactic celebration, Crown Zenith, has since featured four mainline sets from Scarlet & Violet, another celebration set with the enormous Pokémon 151, various reprint specials like McDonald’s...
The 9 Best Pokémon TCG YouTubers To Follow
13.10.2023
Anyone surprised by what manages to become popular on YouTube clearly hasn’t been paying attention. From magnet fishing for trash, to trampolining off high platforms, there’s a channel with over a million subscribers for everything. So it shouldn’t shock anyone that when it comes to watching other...
The 10 Most Anticipated Pokémon TCG Cards From Paradox Rift
9.10.2023
If you both played the Pokémon Scarlet or Violet game, and follow the Pokémon Trading Card Game, you’ll have noticed that the first four sets have entirely omitted the denizens of the the Great Crater of Paldea. These either ancient or futuristic Pokémon (dependent upon whether you played Scarlet...
Every Pokémon TCG Card Revealed So Far In Pokémon 151
7.9.2023
Pokémon 151 is set to be one of the biggest sets the Pokémon Trading Card Game has ever seen. Releasing on September 22, it’s a celebration of the original 151 Gen I Kanto pocket monsters, uniting the gang in full for the first time ever. Things are likely going to get loud, with pre-orders already...
The 10 Top-Selling Cards In Pokémon TCG's Obsidian Flames
22.8.2023
The Pokémon TCG’s Obsidian Flames was always going to be an awkward, middle child of a set. Released before the fuss of Paldea Evolved and its Iono frenzy was over, but also just a month ahead of the inevitable deafening noise of Pokémon 151, if it weren’t for its Charizards it might have been...
The 10 Top-Selling Cards In Pokémon TCG's Obsidian Flames
21.8.2023
The Pokémon TCG’s Obsidian Flames was always going to be an awkward, middle child of a set. Released before the fuss of Paldea Evolved and its Iono frenzy was over, but also just a month ahead of the inevitable deafening noise of Pokémon 151, if it weren’t for its Charizards it might have been...
The Next Pokémon Card Set Is Packed With Essential Charizards (And More!)
7.8.2023
For the first time since the switch to the new era of Pokémon TCG, it’s all about Charizards again. With next week’s release of Obsidian Flames, players and collectors will once again be making a very big fuss about the cuddle orange dragon, with three different ‘Zards to collect in the set....
Useless Magikarp Is One Of The Most Valuable Pokémon Cards In New TCG Set
11.7.2023
Pokémon TCG is really hotting up with the summer weather, as the Scarlet & Violet era hits its stride. We’re a month into the second set, Paldea Evolved, while hotly anticipating both August’s Obsidian Flames, and September’s Pokémon 151 sets. This makes it a great time to see how Paldea...
Pokémon Spoiled The TCG By Making One Set Far Too Good
19.6.2023
When it comes to buying Pokémon trading card packs, there’s pretty much one thing that people care about the most: pull rates. What are the chances of getting a special card in any given foil-wrapped packet? And with early 2023's Crown Zenith set, they suddenly got a whole lot better. Then...
The 11 Most Exciting Cards In Pokémon's Big Paldea Set
25.5.2023
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s second English-language set, Paldea Evolved, arrives on June 9, featuring some of the most elaborately designed cards we’ve seen so far. For those extra-keen, May 27 will see the pre-release Build & Battle boxes on sale in your favorite specialist stores, meaning...