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Pokemon TCG

Khrista Cendana
Pokemon TCG

How can Pokemon TCG be educational for kids? Can adults play the game? What is the negative side of playing this game? This article will explain the basics of what the game is and how it can be an educational tool.

What is Pokemon TCG? TCG is short for trading card game. The game became quite popular in the late 90s. I was still a kid in elementary school, but during that time, I remember the game being introduced when Pokemon began airing on television.

Pokemon TCG is a two-player game but it can also be a battle between four players. It involves a 60-card deck; imagine a 52-card deck but with Pokemon cards. It’s a strategic and critical thinking game that involves getting the right cards in your deck to beat your opponents, and it may seem very complex  if one doesn’t know how to play.

The Pokemon TCG Teaches Education

  1. Math – Kids will learn basic math while adding or subtracting the health points of their Pokemon during the game.
  2. Reading – There are going to be some hard words on the Pokemon cards and kids might have trouble pronouncing them at first.
  3. Cognitive Skills –  There needs to be a total of 60 cards in a deck and kids have to learn getting the right cards in your deck to beat your opponents.
  4. Competition – Kids will learn that they can’t win the game all the time and that they have to accept that winning isn’t everything.
  5. Researching – researching a specific card online.
  6. Selling – selling cards to a player or online like amazon.

Pokemon TCG for Adults

It’s harder for adults to find peers who play the card game of Pokemon. Here are some tips and advice for adults:

  1. Look for a store that sells Pokemon trading cards and see if they host a tournament for adults.
  2. Invite your friends who play Pokemon TCG, and if you don’t have any friends who play, introduce them to the game.
  3. You can go online and install the Pokemon TCG for the computer to play with someone online: Pokemon TCG Online

Top Issues With Pokemon TCG

  1. There aren’t many kids or adults that plays the game.
  2. Stealing: This issue is not included in the above link, but when  Pokemon became a popular hit, there was a lot of stealing in school when kids brought their cards in hoping to trade or battle.
  3. Older cards are worthless because the game has been updated over many years now.
  4. Limitation: Certain cards are forbidden in a tournament like the old sets.

Is it easy for anyone to play the game? I think Pokemon TCG is easier to play than Magic the Gathering, Yu-gi-oh or many other card games. Pokemon TCG is still strategic and requires critical thinking, but Pokemon is more fun to play, I think. Learning to play it will take a few days. I started playing the game because I saw some of my classmates playing the game in school. I was watching them play and a few days later, I bought some cards and began collecting since I watch the anime. I wasn’t really good at the game, and I just collect the cards.

Anyone can play the card game; it isn’t just for kids. It’s more of a learning tool for kids as they can try and read hard words, do basic math, and practice strategic & critical thinking. Not only that but they can do research on a certain card if they want to trade or even start selling at a young age. The game is helpful to kids who are interested in Pokemon, while for adults, it’s a way of either having fun or trying to gain profit from certain cards.

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