Stepping out of ancient times comes a Pokémon so mighty that legends say it shaped the Pokémon universe! The Pokémon TCG: Platinum—Arceus expansion introduces the Alpha Pokémon Arceus and its multiple Energy types. So, harness and wield this awesome power or rise to its incredible challenge! Capture previously unseen Pokémon LV. X to aid you in this titanic struggle, and turn the tide of battle with all-new Trainer and Stadium cards. Prepare to face your greatest test...



Flamemaster Theme Deck Stormshaper Theme Deck
Make your opponent feel the burn as Fire Arceus unleashes its Bright Flame attack, and keep the damage coming with the Trainer card Energy Restore as you racet oward victory! Bring Tangrowth into the equation and inflict some tag-team trouble on already weakened Pokémon with its devastataing Swallow Up attack or use Leaf Guard to both defend and attack at the same time. Only those who play with fire can become the Flamemaster!

Stormshaper Theme Deck
Shocks are in store for your opponents with this Lightning Arceus-led deck. Vary your Active Pokémon and attacks at breakneck speed with the Alpha Pokémon's Lightning Turn attack and, as if that weren't enough, use the Pokémon Tool Expert Belt to both boost your Pokémon HP and increase the damage...as well as the devastation of your attacks! But beware, pitfalls await the unwary Trainer who allows a Pokémon to be Knocked Out while using the Expert Belt...so shape your storms carefully!



Each theme deck contains 1 complete 60-card deck. Many of the cards exist in multiples to provide a more enjoyable playing experience.

Source: http://go-pokemon.com/tcg/news/articles/145.html

From the TV to the tabletop, you can play Pokémon Rumble wherever you want! Pokémon TCG: Rumble is a fast-paced card game that up to seven people can play at the same time! Using actual Pokémon Trading Card Game cards, players take turns rolling special dice and trying to Knock Out Pokémon in the Battle Royale to claim the last Pokémon standing! The player with the most points is the winner!

Pokémon TCG: Rumble is easy to learn, and every game is sure to be different! Coming December 2nd! Pokémon TCG: Rumble is sold separately and not required to play the Pokémon Rumble video game.

Each Pokémon TCG: Rumble game allows up to seven players to open the box and compete in a true Battle Royale with the goal of being the last Pokémon standing. The fast-paced card game is played on a playmat where the simple roll of the dice can decide your fate.

To play the game, simply place your markers to guess which Pokémon cards will outlast the others, roll the Energy dice to figure out which move you can use and roll the Target die to find out which Pokémon you will attack! Score points for each Pokémon you Knock Out and score even bigger if your marker is on the last Pokémon standing.

Features:

• 1 Battle Royale Playmat
• 16 exclusive Pokémon TCG cards with foil Rumble logos, including 3 all-foil cards. Each card uses Pokémon art from the WiiWare Pokémon Rumble title.
• 4 Energy Dice & 1 Target Die
• 14 Player Markers (2 per player)

Source: http://www.pokemonrumble.com/

Three new Platinum Arceus cards were revealed today. The latest Pokémon card game expansion set, Platinum: Arceus, will be released on November 4th. Below is information about the newly revealed card.



Fire-type Arceus
Reflecting the heat of the sun, this Fire-type Arceus (AR3) charges forth to take on all foes! It can unleash the incendiary Bright Flame attack, a searing move that delivers 80 damage. A heavy blow, especially for a Basic Pokémon! The only downside to Bright Flame is that you may have to discard 2 Energy attached to Arceus, but this is dependent on a coin flip, and is a small price to pay for the kind of inferno Arceus can create. Fire-type Arceus is sure to become a centerpiece for your Fire deck.

Grass-type Arceus
Boasting distinctive green markings, the Grass-type Arceus (AR2) brings your Bench to life in impressive fashion. Like most of the Arceus cards, this Arceus has only one attack—an attack that can be the difference between victory and defeat! Leaf Refresh does 30 damage to the Defending Pokémon, but more important, it removes 3 damage counters from each of your Benched Pokémon and keeps them healthy enough to join the fight whenever they’re called upon! With the Grass-type Arceus your defenses against attacks on your Bench are stronger than ever before.

Darkness-type Arceus
The Darkness-type Arceus (AR1) begins our preview series of Arceus cards available in the Platinum—Arceus expansion. Standing tall in front of a total eclipse, this Arceus performs best when you’re behind in the game. Its Prize Count attack does 20 damage, but if you have more Prize cards left than your opponent, you’ll do an extra 60 damage! When you start to struggle, the Darkness-type Arceus could be exactly what you need to fight your way back into the game.

Source: http://go-pokemon.com/tcg/cards/featured/pl4/

A new Platinum Arceus card was revealed today. The latest Pokémon card game expansion set, Platinum: Arceus, will be released on November 4th. Below is information about the newly revealed card.

Beginning Door (82/99), a Trainer card with the sole purpose of moving an Arceus card from your deck to your hand. Since it’s a Trainer card, you can play more than one per turn. This, in turn, allows you to load your Bench with Arceus before your opponent can blink! Beginning Door is a portal to all kinds of opportunities in the Platinum - Arceus expansion!

Source: http://go-pokemon.com/tcg/cards/featured/pl4/

The Pokémon TCG: Platinum Supreme Victors expansion was released on August 19th, 2009. Press release pictures from this set have been added to an Imageboard thread.

Pokémon TCG: Platinum Supreme Victors

Increase your power with impressive new Pokémon that will take you to the pinnacle of Pokémon battles—the Battle Frontier! The brand-new Pokémon Trading Card Game Platinum—Supreme Victors is available now!

In the new Pokémon TCG set, Platinum—Supreme Victors, you’ll find more sizzling Pokémon SP like Blaziken, more ferocious Pokémon LV.X like Charizard LV.X, and more opportunities to battle your way to the top. Victory will be supreme when you play with Pokémon trained by Team Galactic, the Battle Frontier elite, and the Sinnoh League Champion! This latest installment of the best-selling Pokémon TCG contains more than 150 cards and features new Pokémon SP and new Pokémon LV.X including Rayquaza, Garchomp and more!

• Collect Dragon-type Pokémon including Charizard and Rayquaza
• Discover new Pokémon LV.X including Charizard, Garchomp, and Blaziken
• More Pokémon SP including Frontier Brain’s Pokémon and Champion’s Pokémon

Get Smart with Frontier Brain SP Cards!
The Frontier Brains proved their worthiness as opponents in Pokémon Platinum Version. Now see these talented Trainers in action in Supreme Victors! Look for over a dozen Frontier Brain SP cards, including the Psychic-type Drifblim [GL] (3/147) and the hard-hitting Regigigas [GL] (9/147). There are even a few Pokémon SP LV.X cards to catch, including Staraptor [GL] LV.X (147/147)!

Brighten Up Your Deck with Shiny Cards!
There are three Shiny cards in Supreme Victors that you won’t want to miss. Shiny cards are easily recognizable by nonstandard colors of the Pokémon in the artwork, as well as their unique numbering. Notably, the Fighting-type Relicanth (SH8) can use the Deep Sea Pressure attack to make it more costly for the Defending Pokémon to retreat. Also be sure to check out the Water-type Milotic (SH7) and Grass-type Yanma (SH9), more Shiny cards that will surely bring sparkle to your deck!

Even Cuter in Clay!
Supreme Victors also marks the return of one of the coolest TCG card art styles. Illustrator Yuka Morii creates clay models of Pokémon then photographs them in natural environments. Supreme Victors marks the first time her illustrations have appeared in the Platinum series! Focusing on the most adorable Pokémon, Yuka Morii’s designs can be seen on the Electric-type duo Plusle (76/147), Minun (71/147), and on the darling Whismur (132/147)!

Get in on the fun of Supreme Victors at your local store with boosters plus great theme decks, Ignition and Overflow!

Source: https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/supreme-victors

Ignition / Overflow Theme Decks

Make Cyrus's Pokémon yours with the Ignition theme deck! Team Galactic's fiery Arcanine G roars through your opponent's Pokémon to attack the Bench with its awesome Overrun attack! And where there's fire, there's got to be an energy resource... The Bebe's Search Supporter cards and Energy Search Trainer cards will give you just what you need. Now get ready for Venusaur, who can endure tons of damage, and then change the game—making the Defending Pokémon Burned, Confused, and Poisoned with its Desperate Pollen attack! So, you've got the fuel and the fire... Can you bring the heat?

Take your game to new heights with help from Cynthia, the Sinnoh League Champion! With powerful Champion's Pokémon Milotic C and Spiritomb C at your call, you'll discover how valuable Psychic and Water Pokémon SP can be. Exceptional Supporter cards like Cynthia's Feelings and Roseanne's Research provide a flood of game play options. Then watch Roserade C run riot with its Magical Leaf attack—flip a coin right and extra damage rains down while it heats itself. Take the plunge and submerge your opponents in the treacherous waters of Overflow!

The Pokémon TCG: Platinum Rising Rivals expansion was released on May 16th, 2009. Press release pictures from this set have been added to an Imageboard thread. Details have been added to our TCG dex.

Platinum Rising Rivals

The Pokémon TCG: Platinum—Rising Rivals expansion brings powerful Trainers and amazing Pokémon together in new and exciting ways, pitting Trainer against Trainer and Pokémon against Pokémon in battles that are sure to raise players to the top of their games! This latest installment of the best-selling Pokémon TCG contains more than 110 cards and features new Pokémon SP and new Pokémon LV.X including Luxray and Gallade, while the Plasma Pokémon Rotom can now be collected in five different forms!

Loaded with the latest Trainer cards, new game play options, and some of the most awesome Pokémon ever, Platinum—Rising Rivals lets you ascend to the level of the Elite Four and discover the elite Trainer in yourself!

The Pokémon TCG: Platinum Rising Rivals expansion was released on May 16th, 2009. Press release pictures from this set have been added to an Imageboard thread.

Platinum Rising Rivals

The Pokémon TCG: Platinum—Rising Rivals expansion brings powerful Trainers and amazing Pokémon together in new and exciting ways, pitting Trainer against Trainer and Pokémon against Pokémon in battles that are sure to raise players to the top of their games! This latest installment of the best-selling Pokémon TCG contains more than 110 cards and features new Pokémon SP and new Pokémon LV.X including Luxray and Gallade, while the Plasma Pokémon Rotom can now be collected in five different forms!

Loaded with the latest Trainer cards, new game play options, and some of the most awesome Pokémon ever, Platinum—Rising Rivals lets you ascend to the level of the Elite Four and discover the elite Trainer in yourself!

• Look for all-new Pokémon SP
• Discover powerful new Pokémon LV.X
• Collect five different forms for Rotom—Wash Rotom, Fan Rotom, Frost Rotom, Mow Rotom, and Heat Rotom

Add Spice with New Pokémon SP
With more than 30 Pokémon SP in this set, you’ll have plenty of options to choose from. Team Galactic’s Pokémon return with cards like Darkrai [G] (3/111); however, new types of Pokémon SP are on the scene now! You can play with Gym Leader’s Pokémon like Lucario [GL] (8/111), or even Pokémon belonging to members of the Elite Four! Scizor Elite Four (48/111) has been trained by Elite Four Aaron himself!

A Plethora of Pokémon LV.X
The power of nine new Pokémon LV.X is yours to control in this exciting set! Use Snorlax LV.X (111/111) to refill your hand with its Big Appetite Poké-Power, and then use those cards to keep Snorlax LV.X going with Exercise when it wakes up. Of course, the Gym Leaders have their own Pokémon LV.X, like Floatzel [GL] LV.X (104/111) that keeps your Water-type Pokémon in the game even after they’re Knocked Out! Infernape Elite Four LV.X (108/111) proves that the Elite Four can reach the highest level of training as well. Too many Pokémon LV.X giving you trouble? Fight fire with fire and use Flygon LV.X’s (105/111) Extreme Attack to take them down, even ones on the Bench!

Learn the Secret of Rotom!
The mysterious Plasma Pokémon Rotom can be found in a special subset of cards in Rising Rivals. Each of these Rotom can change its type to match the form it’s in, like Water-type for Frost Rotom (RT2). Rotom can do more than be a double threat for opposing Weaknesses; Heat Rotom (RT3) can be a great engine, getting your Fire-type Pokémon powered up and Burning your rival’s Pokémon. Using the power of Charon’s Choice (RT6) you'll keep your opponents off balance—they'll never know which Rotom they'll be facing next!

Get all the action of Rising Rivals at your local store with boosters, and also watch for great theme decks, Drill Point and Cutting Edge!

Source: https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/rising-rivals

Cutting Edge / Drill Point Theme Decks

Find out exactly how the Elite Four became so elite when Blade Pokémon Gallade 四 cuts through the Defending Pokémon's Resistance with a fierce Feint attack. This forceful Psychic-type Pokémon gets support from gutsy Grass-type Pokémon like Leafeon and Beedrill, both of which cause devastating Special Conditions and great damage to go along with it! Play your game with the Cutting Edge theme deck, and you'll always be one step ahead of your opponents!

Could anything match the thrill of hammering down your opponent's defenses turn by turn with the brute force of Fighting-type Pokémon like Rhyperior 四 and Hippowdon with their Rock Tumble and Groundquake attacks? There is: try a roundhouse-right from Vibrava and its astonishing Energy Typhoon. With all that Energy rushing your way, your early-game domination will drill straight through your opposition. Get the point?

The Pokémon TCG: Platinum expansion was released on February 11th, 2009. Press release pictures from this set have been added to an Imageboard thread.

Platinum

The Pokémon TCG: Platinum expansion puts you in the middle of the action when you face challenges no Trainer has ever encountered before! From incredible Pokémon LV.X like Giratina to the mysterious new Lost Zone, from the newly discovered Pokémon Shaymin to the villainous Team Galactic, you’ll discover worlds you never knew existed and fight battles you never knew were possible. The Pokémon TCG: Platinum is your first step into the next great Pokémon TCG adventure!

• Introduces the never-before-seen Pokémon Shaymin!
• Includes all-new Trainer-specific Pokémon SP!
• New game play area, the Lost Zone, adds lots of new strategies!
• Features two theme decks built around the new Pokémon Shaymin and the Renegade Pokémon Giratina!
• Exciting holographic parallel set for players and collectors alike
• 130 cards in all!

Source: https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/platinum

Flourish / Rebellion Theme Decks

Sweet victory is yours with the fast-moving Flourish deck! Silcoon becomes the powerful Beautifly in the blink of an eye, while swarms of Fire and Grass Pokémon catapult into action. The amazing Shaymin enables you to dish out damage to your opponent's Pokémon with Energy Blow, while keeping your team in top condition by removing damage counters with Aromatherapy. When you don't have time to mess around, go ahead and win with a Flourish!

What do you get when you team up Fighting and Psychic Pokémon? You get a hard-hitting team with some tricks up its sleeve! The mighty Giratina keeps you safe with its Dragonbreath as Mismagius and Dugtrio use their sneaky traps to catch your opponents off guard. Then, unleash Gardevoir and its double-barreled Energy Burst attack. The more Energy in the field, the stronger it gets! With your strength and savvy, you'll lead your Rebellion to supremacy!

The Pokémon TCG: Diamond & Pearl Stormfront expansion was released on November 5th, 2008. Press release pictures from this set have been added to an Imageboard thread.

Diamond & Pearl Stormfront

A turbulent force is approaching, and it’s on a collision course with everything you thought you knew about the Pokémon TCG! In Diamond & Pearl—Stormfront, you are met head-on by powerful Pokémon unrestrained and never holding anything back! In this frenzy you’ll find new Pokémon LV.X, Trainer cards that power up when played together, and the dramatic entrance of some of the most popular Pokémon ever! The time has come to enter the storm, and witness this awe-inspiring spectacle first hand!

• Powerful new Pokémon LV.X cards, including Dusknoir and Machamp
• Two theme decks built around the popular Gyarados and Tyranitar
• New strategies such as Trainer cards that can be played in pairs
• Exciting holographic parallel set for players and collectors alike

Source: https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/stormfront

Raging Sea / Dark Rampage Theme Decks

When you play with the Raging Sea theme deck, crashing waves mean the tide is turning in your favor! The ever-powerful Gyarados thrives on causing serious disruption in your opponent's forces. Its Dragon Beat attack gives you the chance to discard an Energy card from each of your opponent's Pokémon—leaving those Pokémon low on resources and running for higher ground! And watch as Sceptile becomes your favorite new ally with its Slice Drain attack—it does big damage and then heals itself with every impact! Unleash the Raging Sea theme deck and you'll ride out the storm on top!

Prepare for some serious crushing power when you play with the Dark Rampage theme deck. Each time your opponent uses a Poké-Power, the Armor Pokémon Tyranitar's Darkness Drive Poké-Body lets you attach a Darkness Energy card to power up Tyranitar's Grind attack for an additional 20 damage! Then, go for a quick finish by bringing in Staraptor. Its Clutch attack will grab onto the Defending Pokémon, making it unable to avoid the next big hit! No matter how you play the Dark Rampage theme deck, you're putting on the hurt each turn and never letting up!

Pokemon USA, Inc., the worldwide leader in trading card games and video games, today announced details for both the 2008 Pokemon(R) Trading Card Game (TCG) World Championships as well as the first-ever Pokemon Video Game Showdown, which will pit the most skilled Pokemon video game players from the U.S. and Japan against one another in a battle to determine the ultimate champion. Both events will take place August 16-17 at the Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, bringing together hundreds of Pokemon fans from around the globe.

The Pokemon Video Game Showdown will feature 64 of the most talented players from the U.S. and Japan competing in two different age divisions. U.S. qualifiers were selected from two regional tournaments held in Los Angeles and New York on July 12 and July 19, respectively. Over 1,000 players from ages 6 to 43 came from all over the country to battle playing Pokemon Diamond or Pokemon Pearl for the opportunity to compete against the best players from Japan. Participants will strive for the chance to call themselves a champion and win a grand prize that includes a six-day vacation package for four to New York City, Honolulu, or Tokyo. Runners up will win custom Nintendo DS(TM) game systems and special Pokemon prize packs.

The 2008 Pokemon Trading Card Game World Championships follow a record-setting U.S. National Championships in June, which drew nearly 1,000 competitors. Hundreds of players from nearly 30 countries will compete in the invite-only event for the title of Pokemon TCG World Champion. The top 32 winners in each of the three age divisions will be awarded various Pokemon prizes and merchandise, including scholarship awards worth more than $100,000.

Pokemon has proved its dominance over the past 10 years as one of the most successful kid's franchises of all-time. The Pokemon animated series is broadcast in more than 30 countries in over 25 languages. Nintendo's Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl games sold more than 1 million copies in the first five days and more than 14 million copies since their launch. The Pokemon Trading Card Game is the number one collectible trading card game and boasts over 80,000 organized play members. Both championship events will promote the fun of the trading card and video games as players are required to use skill, strategy, and creativity to play.

Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/