The Pokémon Trading Card Game The Pokémon TCG is centered around collecting cards and battling other players. In the TCG You win by earning the six prize cards, you earn those prizecards by beating your foe's Pokémon. You beat a Pokémon by depleting it's HP by attacking it with your Pokémon. Attacks cost energy, you can harness energy by attaching (the right) energy cards. At first, every so often a new set was released but since Nintendo started producing the games theirself every 2.5-3.5 months a new set is released. Below a table with all of the types of cards (5) currently in play

Pokémon Cards	Trainer Cards	Energy Cards
Supporter Cards	Stadium Cards

Not all of the types from the games (17) exist in the TCG (9) Below a table with all of the types currently in play:

Type Name	Colour	Video game Type	Symbol	Example Pokémon
Colourless	White/Light Gray	Normal, Dragon, Flying		Pidgeot
Fire	Red	Fire		Charizard
Water	Blue	Water, Ice		Articuno
Grass	Green	Grass, Bug, Poison		Butterfree
Lightning	Yellow	Electric		Pikachu
Fighting	Brown/Dark Orange	Fighting, Rock, Ground		Machoke
Psychic	Purple	Psychic, Ghost, Poison		Mewtwo
Metal	Dark Gray/Silver	Steel		Steelix
Darkness	Black	Dark		Houndoom