Pokemon TCG #80906 Battle Academy 2022 Deck Set - (3 Decks) 180 Total Cards

Easy way to start your Pokémon journey. My child and I had a fun time learning and trying out the sample decks. Very good value for starting to play the game. Educational with great instructions to get started quickly. The included board was helpful to get all the cards in the right place.Not for those wanting to collect, but worth buying if you just want to play the game without a serious investment.

Great intro into Pokémon cards! It gives a very easy step by step instructions and my kiddo and I knew nothing about how to play. I would recommend this to anyone who has a kiddo that wants to start playing.

Taught my kid how to play Pokemon with this great place to start and super fun if a little deterministic

This set is set up with 3 decks. Each has 22 Pokemon cards within a single element with several evolution lines, 18 energy cards of that element and 20 trainer cards which provides a functional playing deck. One of the pokemon cards in each deck is your V character card. The Pikachu and Cinderace decks are in order when you get them to follow the included tutorial so don't mix them up yet. If you do mix them up they are numbered one to sixty so you can put them back in order. The Eevee booklet explains rules and card types and rules are also on the board to help remind you. The board is not a mat, it's a boardgame board. There's also damage counters and a cute coin with the 3 characters. Great value if you are a beginner.

My 8 and 6 year old love it. it's great instructional start to the game, and provides everything you need to play the actual game with real rules. Before this, my kids just had random cards that couldn't really complete a deck and they just made up rules to play (which is also fun!). I'd recommend this for any kids just getting into pokemon trading card game

Unfortunately we bought the wrong one and paid $5 more than we should have. There's a "battle academy 2" that was newer and cheaper.We bought this for a 1st grader and it was suitable for him to learn since pokemon involves some strategy building and complexity that can be a bit much for 1st grade. Older kids could just get a "battle deck", read the rulebook (downloadable as PDF if needed), and won't find the board very useful as the places to put cards are pretty easy to remember after playing more than once.As for the pokemon game design itself, I'd have to give that 2 stars from my grown-up perspective because I don't think the game is really that well designed. This isn't too surprising though since they started with a popular monster-fighting video game toy franchise then had to shoehorn that into a collectable card game somehow. It's not exactly MtG in sophistication level but I don't think the "pay to win" aspect is too bad as far as such things go and the more simplistic nature of it is more suitable for younger kids who find weird monster stuff appealing.

This product is exactly what it says it is. 3 preconstructed basic pokemon decks - one is Electric type, one is Fire type, and one is Dark (?) type. Step by step instructions teach you the TCG rules, perfect for a beginner

Fantastic starter kit to understand how to play Pokemon Trading Card Game. My little one loves playing.