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the idiots guide to pokemon

well, after seeing super knex builder freak's instructable i though it left out a lot. so i am here to clear things up.

pokemon is a card game, video game, and T.V. show. i will talk about all of them in this instructable.

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Step 1Card game

the card game is a very fun game if you understand it. weather it is collecting or battling it has a place for everyone (even pyromaniacs lol)

the rules are pretty easy to learn. they have got more complicated and changed as the game evolved but they are pretty simple.

1. your deck has to have 60 cards
2. you can only have up to 4 of each pokemon in your deck.
3. you can only have up to 4 of each trainer in your deck (that might have changed)
4. on your turn you can do the following (in this order).
1. pull card
2. play trainer/evolve/attach energy
4. attack (once)
5. you can not evolve a pokemon you just put out
6. you can not attach more then one energy per turn.

thats the basic rules. you can get more in depth in the rule book (comes with each deck)

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Jun 27, 2008. 12:58 PMaltaria1993 says:

the card game is a very fun game if you understand it. weather it is collecting or battling it has a place for everyone (even pyromaniacs lol) that, was really makingn me fall of my chair, becaues im a pyromaniac,(i lit my keyboard on fire..) and i actually still have a shitload of cards somewhere, i dont do anything with them really, but i also ahve sapphire, and diamond those are funny :')

Jan 25, 2012. 11:35 AMomnommaster says:

if u are a pyromaniac get a charizard and teach it blast burn, flamethrower, fire spin and fire punch.

Jun 15, 2008. 9:15 PMbannana inventor says:

Who the heck plays/watches Pokemon anymore?!?

Jan 25, 2012. 11:30 AMomnommaster says:

Nov 25, 2008. 6:09 PMILIKEPIE333 says:

I dont know, but my friend still plays with yugi-oh cards and he is 15

Dec 2, 2008. 11:40 AMOwenmon says:

i like yugioh, just not the kind you think (cough yugiohabridged.com cough)

Dec 2, 2008. 11:49 AMOwenmon says:

once, when i was five, i was really cold, and i saw a whole bunch of yugioh cards, and that magneisum block and a blade, and a aluminum tin, so then i set the card on fire, but they smelled like poo :D they were hot, though (LOL)

Nov 29, 2008. 9:39 PMbannana inventor says:

OMG!!! He needs a life!!!

Dec 1, 2008. 5:36 PMILIKEPIE333 says:

tell me about it

Dec 1, 2008. 6:06 PMbannana inventor says:

LOL. :D Why is he your friend?!?

Dec 2, 2008. 11:45 AMILIKEPIE333 says:

because Ive known him for a long time, and he doesnt try to convert me to playing yugi-oh. Its not like he gets in my face about it

Oct 22, 2008. 10:31 PMjayman1310 says:

agreed

Nov 29, 2008. 9:40 PMbannana inventor says:

Yeah, man!

Oct 22, 2008. 6:32 PMCamisado says:

You're one to talk. You think playing Pokemon is more pitiful then creating toy guns out of building blocks that are generally for 5 year old kids? I think not.

Oct 23, 2008. 6:02 PMbannana inventor says:

Is that why college proffesors use them to show how some bridges are designed? Oh, yeah, that's right college proffesors are 5 year olds. LOL. Pokemon is just a game were you play around with pieces of cardboard sheets. K'nex are for enginuitive resons, my friends older brother went off to college 4 weeks ago for an engineering class in Virginia. He showed some of his K'nex creations to the dean, got in and now he is on his way to making 100k a year. Are K'nex stupid? I don't think so!

Dec 2, 2008. 11:42 AMOwenmon says:

ooh 100k? i make like 360 $ a year =P

Dec 2, 2008. 11:43 AMOwenmon says:

but its not really 100k, now that barak insane obama is "da-man" its gonna be like 20K a year =P

Jun 16, 2008. 7:20 AMdsman195276 (author) says:

ME.

Jan 28, 2009. 12:52 PMalfpwns says:

i beat leaf green _{but i have another game (fire red)}

Jan 25, 2012. 11:30 AMomnommaster says:

i have firered

Mar 16, 2009. 10:23 PMZootch says:

Make a note that in red and blue version, the critical hit ratio for Razorleaf was incorrectly set at 98.7%, making it the most powerful move in the game, thus making Bulbasaur the ideal starter for the first two games of generation one. Also it may be noted that generation one had no effective counters for psychic as the only ghost types in the game shared the poison type as well, making psychic the most powerful type in all of generation one. (also Mudkipz!)

Jan 25, 2012. 11:28 AMomnommaster says:

wow... is that for firered?

Apr 2, 2009. 12:34 PMdynno97 says:

AHHHHH ITS POKEMON. HEAD TO THE HILLS! HIDE OBAMA IN THE BOMB SHELTER! I IS THE END OF THE WORLD!

Jan 25, 2012. 11:27 AMomnommaster says:

???

Aug 17, 2009. 11:04 PMRaiden97 says:

is the pokemon card game just like yu gi oh? because it sounds like it

Jan 25, 2012. 11:19 AMomnommaster says:

i have memorized the first (i think) 4 generations and am working on the Black and White series.

Aug 20, 2009. 11:42 PMBOOM5601 says:

No, I understand yugioh but not pokemon.

Aug 31, 2009. 1:18 AMGannas says:

Pokemon is awesome yeehaa

Jan 25, 2012. 11:19 AMomnommaster says:

i have memorized the first (i think) 4 generations and am working on the Black and White series.

Jun 25, 2009. 11:13 AMMiles Tails Prower says:

Nice guide man. This will help alot with getting a card game started! ;D BTW: I checked out the newer booster packs of Pokémon. They RULE. I got 1 lv X and an reversed card! Random pic: