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Pokemon Trading Card Game, Player's Guide

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This is the first book, in a two book series, the second book being titled, 'Pokemon Trading Card Game: Fossil Expansion: Player's Guide", ISBN: 188436439X. It is a guide to collecting, trading and playing the card came 'Pokemon: Trading Card Game". It also has information about the original set, 'Jungle', and 'Fossil' Expansion sets, and the Japanese cards. There is also a guide to the Nintendo 64 game "Pokemon Snap", and a mention of the Blockbuster Video printing machine {Pokemon Station}. According to the title page, and back side cover, this book is written by three authors, however Mark Elies, isn't listed on the front cover, which was illustrated is by Vanessa Adams, this is mentioned in the second book, but not in this book. It originally cost $12.95.

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English
Pages
144

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Pokemon Trading Card Game, Player's Guide
1999, Sandwich Islands Pubublishing Company, Ltd., Sandwich Islands Pub
Paperback in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction. 5
Pokemon Lore. 5
Strength of the Game. 6
Not the Typical Card Game. 7
Your Guide to Excellence. 8
Pokemon TCG Set Composition. 9
102-Card "Base" Set. 9
64-Card "Jungle" Expansion Set. 12
64-Card "Fossil" Expansion Set. 14
Game Rules. 17
Game Requirements. 17
Game Objective. 17
4 Card Types. 18
7 Energy Types. 18
Ailments. 24
Game Setup. 26
Starting a Game. 28
Gameplay Tips. 35
Game Mechanic Tips. 35
Game Setup Tips. 35
Deck-Struction. 39
Pokemon Destruction. 40
Evolution Decks. 40
Beat-Down Decks. 42
Deck Destruction. 44
Stall Decks. 44
Monster Selection. 46
Energy Allotment. 49
Winning with Trainers. 50
Ratios & Tuning. 52
Tournament-Winning Decks. 53
Rain Dance. 54
Haymaker. 55
"Invisible Stall" Rules Variations. 57
Single Card Rules/strategy. 61
Pocket Monster Card Game Set Lists. 111
Pokemon Snap (Nintendo 64). 121
Pokemania!. 135
Merchandising.
Theme Decks. 136
Pocket Monsters. 136
Tournaments/Mall Tour. 137
Blockbuster Snap. 138
Video Games. 139

Edition Notes

Published in
Lahaina, Maui
Series
Player's Guide
Copyright Date
1999

Classifications

Library of Congress
GV1469.62.P63 B76 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
144 p. :
Number of pages
144
Dimensions
23 x 18 x 0.8 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3963647M
Internet Archive
pokmontradingc00brok
ISBN 10
1884364500
LCCN
2001267982
OCLC/WorldCat
42191284
Library Thing
1209993
Goodreads
147541

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