Trash Talk
The Pokemon TCG has a lot of cards which have players discard cards from their hand in order to get an additional effect. There has been a bit of confusion among Pokemon TCG Players...
Author: PokePop
Update to Ban List for Pokemon TCG – Two Cards Added for Expanded
Pokemon has released their quarterly update to the ban list and two cards were added. Players were expected Lusamine to be on this list, due to the possibility for infinite recursions, but it...
Pokemon TCG SM: Team Up FAQs
The FAQs for SM: Team Up have been released. They are available on the Pokemon Professor forum, but for those of you that don’t have access, we are posting them here as well. I...
PokePopCast 24: Blacephalon GX and Tiebreaker Games
In this PopCast, we cover a number of difficult rulings on the new card from Lost Thunder, Blacephalon GX, and also an important update to rules on Tiebreaker games. Can you discard Rainbow...
SM: Lost Thunder – FAQ
Lost Thunder Prereleases are getting under way, with some locations running Friday night (midnight) events. Pokemon should be sending emails out to those Tournament Organizers with the FAQs for the set, but for those...
PokePopCast 23: How Pokemon TCG Rulings are Made
On this episode of the PopCast, we answer some viewer questions that were collected from Facebook forums. Basically we discuss how Team Compendium got started, how it joined the Pokemon Rules Team, and how...
PokePopCast 22: Kim Cary and Steps to Being a Better Judge
Thanks to the Organizer of the Philadelphia Regionals, Vince Krekeler, for letting Kim and I take a break at the end of the event to record this video. Kim was a Judge Mentor for...
PokePopCast 21: 2018 Pokemon Worlds Head Judge – Next Level Judging
I was able to sit down with Richard Walkoski, AKA Big Daddy Snorlax, the Judge Lead for the Pokemon World Championships and discuss high level judging concepts. It’s a pleasure to share some time...
Updates to the Standard and Expanded Legal Card Lists for the new 2019 Season
It’s always a major update when the format rotates! We have gone through the Expanded and Standard Legal Cards lists and updated them to reflect the set rotations and recent bannings in Expanded. We...
PokePopCast 20: Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes in the Pokemon TCG
In this episode of the PokePopCast, we review all of the changes that have and are happening in the Pokemon TCG this month. From format changes to card bannings, to major changes in the...
