Cheap decks. Real cards. One kitchen table.

A dad and his son learning the Pokémon Trading Card Game together, and writing down what works so your family can skip the expensive mistakes.

We started playing because we wanted a hobby that was not another screen. Two decks, a table, and somebody across from you.

Two things we believe:

You do not need the rarest, most expensive card to win. The plain printing of a card plays exactly like the shiny one. We build with cheap cards and tell you what each list costs.
The game is better on cardboard. Everything here is for playing in person: a parent and a kid, at home or at your local league.

Every deck on this site has been built with real cards and played at our table. When something we tried did not work, we say so.