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Pokémon Trading Card Game: Sword & Shield Astral Radiance Elite Trainer Box on sale for
$24.99.
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Features:- 8 Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield—Astral Radiance booster packs
- 65 card sleeves featuring Darkrai
- 45 Pokémon TCG Energy cards
- A player's guide to the Sword & Shield—Astral Radiance expansion
- A Pokémon TCG rulebook
- 6 damage-counter dice
- 1 competition-legal coin-flip die
- 2 acrylic condition markers
- 1 acrylic VSTAR marker
- A collector's box to hold everything, with 4 dividers to keep it organized
- A code card for Pokémon Trading Card Game Live
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My son is young (6) and there's this tension between wanting to learn and play the TCG game, and just collecting. The third prong to this world, investment, is not part of the calculus (at least at this time).
We have the Battle Academy box, and it is great for what it is (to learn TCG), but he also wants to just put the cards in his binder and treat them like any other. So it's like we need junk cards on top of what's in that set, as it feels important to keep that set intact.
I see all these Pokemon sales but it's so hard to know what it is what, it feels like a different language. Feels like a big part of the "problem" (if you call it that) is the investing side of things is so enormous it outweighs everything else for most people so when they talk about these deals, that's the main focus. .
Filling the binder with cool, shiny cards is what most kids want to do. Opening packs and getting that joy of hitting something cool. You can get packs as cheaply as possible and hunt for them, or buy single cards you want for often very cheap on ebay and tcgplayer. But then there are some chase cards in each set that may be highly sought after and expensive. This set, Astral Radiance, has about 8 cards over $30. 3 of those are over $50 and 1 of those is over $100.
You can also use these packs to build decks of your own, but then you're starting to get pretty complex. Even deck builders often look to experts to form decks and then they follow them. Those decks can cost over hundred easily to build, because the cards in them are usually highly sought after.
For gameplay, Battle Academy is the best place to start, then add in some level 1 decks that you can buy "V Battle Decks" for more varity, and then when looking for more advanced decks, "League Battle Decks", marked Level 3, such as the "Mew VMAX League Battle Deck" currently being sold in stores.
We've also been able to "swap" one or two cards that she drew from the random pack into the starter battle decks. I think this might be the best path forward. I will get her a few packs as a stocking stuffer for christmas.
Filling the binder with cool, shiny cards is what most kids want to do. Opening packs and getting that joy of hitting something cool. You can get packs as cheaply as possible and hunt for them, or buy single cards you want for often very cheap on ebay and tcgplayer. But then there are some chase cards in each set that may be highly sought after and expensive. This set, Astral Radiance, has about 8 cards over $30. 3 of those are over $50 and 1 of those is over $100.
You can also use these packs to build decks of your own, but then you're starting to get pretty complex. Even deck builders often look to experts to form decks and then they follow them. Those decks can cost over hundred easily to build, because the cards in them are usually highly sought after.
For gameplay, Battle Academy is the best place to start, then add in some level 1 decks that you can buy "V Battle Decks" for more varity, and then when looking for more advanced decks, "League Battle Decks", marked Level 3, such as the "Mew VMAX League Battle Deck" currently being sold in stores.
If you want even a better deal on a per-pack basis, gamestop is still offering 25% off on their cards this week (also stacks with a 5% pickup in-store option), so you can mix and match expansion sets if you want for $2.85 per pack + tax. Probably about as good as you're going to do this holiday season outside of springing for a booster box (36 packs) for one of the lesser-desired expansions.
We've also been able to "swap" one or two cards that she drew from the random pack into the starter battle decks. I think this might be the best path forward. I will get her a few packs as a stocking stuffer for christmas.
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Yet today was day 1 of the Pokémon advent calendar.
Also my brother-in-law is an avid game of many kinds. Different deck games. War hammer competitions with the hand painted miners tires, etc. but can't get him to just come and show us how to really play. Because the learning from a 10 year old who loosely knows the rules isn't working. Makes me sound like an old man. I'm not totally out of touch. Video games, board games, I'm in. I just never got into deck building games.
As of 8:16 pm est. These are back in stock if you're still looking for them.
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