Pokemon Trading Card Game Diamond & Pearl Trainers Kit 2-player Starter Deck Set

Review by Seth C. Short for Pokemon Trading Card Game Diamond & Pearl Trainers Kit 2-player Starter Deck Set Rating: My son and I love this starter set. We’ve played a few times. However, now we’re ready to start adding to the set with boosters. I’ve purchased some boosters, but they don’t seem to come with energy cards, which are essential to the gameplay!

This starter set gives you some Water and Punch energy cards, which are great to start with and fit just fine with the starting mini-decks of this set, but that leaves more than half the booster cards we’ve purchased un-useable because they’re of a different type. And the instructions don’t really explain anything beyond basic gameplay. I was hoping that a starter kit like this would at least answer beginner questions like “how do I expand my deck?”, “how do I play with other types of cards”, “should I focus on a specific energy type, or what?” etc.

I’ll probably have to end up doing research online or finding a book we can study to figure the rest of the game out. Or go to one of those meet-ups, I guess…

Review by for Pokemon Trading Card Game Diamond & Pearl Trainers Kit 2-player Starter Deck Set Rating: My brother and I bought this deck, hoping to learn what Pokemon is about and how to play it. This is a great stepping stone for beginners. We went from knowing almost nothing to getting a great start on our collection. We had no idea what series the booster came from at the time since it was EX, but now we know that it was from EX Dragon Frontiers. In the Manaphy deck you get the following Pokemon: Manaphy, Goldeen, Seaking, Buizel, Floatzel, Piplup, Tododile, and Prinplup. In the Lucario deck you get the following: Lucario, Riolu, Gravler, Geodude, Machop, Machoke, and Starly. You of course get multiple copies of some of the Pokemon for better gameplay. These decks are really great starter decks, except for the fact that the Manaphy one is more powerful. Here’s a helpful tip, if you don’t have the necessary energy for your other Pokemon, in the early battles you can make each energy provide on of any energy. Don’t do this at events! Overall, this is a great buy!

Review by R&Bmama for Pokemon Trading Card Game Diamond & Pearl Trainers Kit 2-player Starter Deck Set Rating: My kids are under 10 and find learning this game to be fun but also with some math and reading skill involved.