How do you play Pokemon tcg?

Answer 1

You first start of by drawing 6 cards and the players who's turn it is draws a card. play a basic Pokemon and the rest are benched and the bench can only hold 5 Pokemon, if one of your benched Pokemon dies you can replace it. your basic Pokemon can attack but you may need energy to use it so supply it with energy cards, attatch one energy on one Pokemon per turn. if it has a normal type color than it means any type. now you must retreat the Pokemon before you attack if it is injured or harm, but only if u want to you can now evovle Pokemon and when this happens all effects on them are done and the original basic Pokemon is dead. when a Pokemon dies it is by the hp, and the attack has a nuber written next to it (not all) that is how much dmg is given to the hp. and when the hp reaches 0 it dies.