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The official website does have the rules, and the maximum limit for any card is 4, unless the format restricts the card further. 1.1 Constructed - In a Constructed event, players arrive at the tournament with a 60-card deck. The cards used to build the deck come from each player's personal collection. Decks may not contain more than 4 copies of a single ...

The short answer is four cards of each name, for a sensible deck. This is similar to the equivalent rule for Magic: The Gathering. Quoting from the unofficial rulebook: 100.2 A deck for Constructed Play can include a total of only four copies of any card with the same name. Basic Energy cards are an exception to this rule. Decks can include any number ...

Whilst I don't play them anymore, CCG sets have many reasons to block older cards Play balance forced upgrade altered rules incompatibility creates loopholes maintaining opponent parity While play balance is the big one, opponent parity and loopholes are related, it's also not one the Pokémon players complain about. Some old cards are over the top, and ...

How do I build a Pokémon TCG deck? Deck building 101 What's the starting point from building a deck? Before deciding on this you must have clear what actually makes a deck win games. Consistency I cannot stress this point enough. A consistent deck is one where every single card work towards a well focused strategy. Let's make some examples on this to ...

In my circle we have played that game numerous times. Some things that worked for us to adjust the 'strategy' of the game are: EXP and LVL: if you have a lot of D6 lying around ( I buy them 18 at a time from our local dollar store) you can use them to track level on your pokemon. Then each time a pokemon wins more battles than they currently are in level ...

I play regularly with my kids. The energy card count depends heavily on the pokemon you use. I have gone as low a 8 in a deck where all the pokemon had effective attacks at 1 energy and a retreat cost of 0 or 1. I have gone as high as 28 or 30 when the deck was based on pokemon that discarded energy to attack and/or took 3 or 4 energy to have an effective ...

Can't vouch for its completeness, but http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-trading-card-game/database/ seems to be a similar resource to the Magic TCG's "Gatherer". Certainly when I made a request for cards with the name "Pikachu" I got 27 card results, so it seems like it could keep a deckbuilder busy for quite a while...

There are a good collection of Pokemon TCG tournament rules and resources here - you may find some of it useful. Looking at the rules for tournament formats, I see that there is a format called "Modified" that restricts players to using more recent sets - but there is also an "Unlimited" format where any cards ever printed are fair game. So, in theory, ...