Pokémon Trading Card Game: Battle Academy Series 2

What a great idea for young pokemon lovers. Easy to learn and a great price

What this most definitely IS: a super basic way to learn how to play a game with pokemon cards. It comes with 3 different low power, simple decks (for variety), damage counters, a board so you know how to lay out the cards, and booklets that describe what to do on each turn depending on which deck you are playing. This is most definitely NOT a way to get high power or rare cards, although it comes with a significant amount of energies (about 18 each) for the three types of decks. I have teenage boys who all can play pokemon. They were excited that I found this set so they can teach a 9 year old friend from church how to play (he has a lot of cards but doesn't know how to use them), show him the basics of deck building, and then he can use this to teach his family. As someone who has spent a lot of time and money on Pokemon over the years, I think this is well worth the $15 if you want a basic way to learn what to do with all those cards your kid is excited to collect.

Easy to understand and play!

My son is 7 and wanted to start collecting Pokémon cards. We play this game with its tutorial and now we know how to play well.

Good quality and good size.

Almost every card is printed off center

My 9 year old's new friends are heavily i to Pokémon, so he became interested. I had no idea how to even begin to help him into this world of cards and battles. I found this game. One short video tutorial later and we were playing on our own. The 11 year old sibling who had expressed irritation and disinterest begged to be in the second battle. This is now their go-to game. I've already purchased additional cards for Christmas so they can develop different card packs. Im so glad I found this game. Sometimes for social games like these, it can be hard to find a starting point for learning - a sort of doorway into the culture of the game players. This is that starting pint, that doorway.

I'm really disappointed in this. I knew there would be some duplicates and energy cards, but out of 120 cards, about 60 are energy and probably another 30 duplicates. Wish I could un-purchase this, but at least it was on sale

We got it as a birthday gift for my son's friend and all of his other friends requested it as their gift for their future birthdays.

Great game to teach people how to play Pokémon. Good for beginners or people who need a refresher course. Some cards were a little damaged but not enough to ruin the experience

Kids love this game! I have bought it about 5 times already. Always a hit!

My item came incomplete and is missing the eevee card.

I purchased this game for a 6 year old and found that the rules were very specific in how they should be arranged. stating do not shuffle but the cards were far from in order and several cards are missing from the decks. my 6 year old also wanted to take control of his rule book and unless your 1st grader can read at a 4th or 5th grade level that's not happening. The game was also confusing and so many rules needed to be followed that he got frustrated so I'm returning it for something else. this game should not be marketed to 6+ but more 9 or 10.

The board game is a nice set, it’s fun to play and has a pretty clear set of rules. No more kid rules, you know when they alsways make up rules amd win every time.

fun game but cards are fringe for the price.

I bought this for my 7 year old because he loves Pokémon and now he's on the floor crying because the Eevee deck is missing 24 cards and doesn't even have the Eevee card. The other decks also have lots of duplicates. The game is pretty much useless when so many cards.

This is the easiest way to learn the card game. My 5 year old understood it just fine, and it gives you step by step through the entire game so you can learn! Definitely recommend.

This had lots of cards to play with including 3 Vs. It is fun playing with friends and family

The first thing the game says is how important the cards order is.. yet the Cinderace deck is missing 3 & 57 and doubled 43 & 56.

We purchased the game and it is missing 4 card from the Cinderace deck. My son was disappointed that he couldn’t play the full game with the cards missing.