The game is pretty easy. Some of my friends and I got into the game for a while recently. You pick 60 cards, split between Pokémon cards, Support Cards, and Energy cards. You typically want to use Pokémon that use the same energy. I split my deck into 20 Pokémon, 20 Support, and 20 Energy. When you start the game, shuffle your deck, then draw 7 cards to use, then 6 prize cards. Decide who goes first. Make a Pokemon your active, then bench any others you have. They just be a basic (it says that in the top left corner). If you don’t have basics reveal your hand and reshuffle your hand into your deck, then draw 7 again. On turn 1, the player going first cannot attack, turn 2 the player going second can attack. Turn to turn you draw a card, attach 1 energy, use 1 trainer, any about of item cards, and attack. After you attack your turn ends. When you KO the Opponent’s Pokemon card, take 1 prize card (prize cards stay flipped over). To win the game take all your prizes, or your Opponent decks out (can’t draw any more cards), or they have no more Pokémon on the field.

It’s pretty simple, but the strategy comes from the V,GX,EX cards you use, the energy type that you pick, and how you use your trainer cards. I recommend if you want to start buy a theme deck or some premade deck. They are typically about 5-12 dollars and come with everything you need. After that make a deck using cards you have. You may need more cards of course, then I would recommend either buy packs so you get a bulk of cards, or buy individual cards from a local store or online (TCG player is pretty good)

I would recommend watching a video by the Pokémon company on how to play as I’m sure I made mistakes. Currently you can play standard or unlimited. Standard allows only recent sets, while unlimited is all. I only play the game with friends and we do unlimited, and change some rules too.

Overall, Pokemon is an easy game, just seems complex because they never made people care or want to know about it until recently. (Sorry for any spelling grammar errors I missed, I hope this helps you out).

Agreed. Nice novelty but they will likely get old after a while. Though they could be useful if you eat fully in the dark.

However, seeing lots of random products like these in the past being pushed on Tik Tok, Twitter, and YouTube community post ads, they likely are pretty cheaply made and not of decent quality anyway.

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I have weird luck with making names for my projects.

For some names like Corrupted and Humble Damien, I came up with them relatively quickly. Corrupted in the series is how people get their powers, so I just went with that. And with Humble Damien, I wanted it to be a antonym. Humble being how he wants people to see him but the opposite of how he acts, and Damien being the name of a Antagonistic wrestler (I happened to meet that wrestler as well).

Thought I’ve had issues with names as well. My first card game I still struggle to have a name for and yet I’ve been working on it for 4x as long as Corrupted.

So at least for me, I try to use a part of the project as the name, or have it relate to the character in some way.

Naming can honestly be one of the easiest things to do, or one of the hardest to do for a project. Mainly because of how important it can be. Having a good name can make a lot more people become interested, or turn a lot of people away. Good luck with the projects name.

The figure wasn’t too good to begin with so no worries. If you want, an older figure of Humble Damien is up. It still isn’t very good compared to my modern figures, but looks a lot better then Front view Flame. You can just use the figure, don’t worry about tracing over it.

I practically know how the whole game plays out. I wasn’t into the game when it came out but I have a few friends who enjoyed it and have told me about it. Plus the internet naturally has spoilers everywhere. I don’t mind and I’m still enjoying the game.

Sometimes I regret keeping the old Front facing Flame up. Still, it’s a good reminder of how my characters changed in just a few years.

The character Flame is on is the frog from Deltarune/Undertale right? I recently started Undertale and it looks familiar.