I feel that we’ve had a GREAT year so far and with Pokémon X & Pokémon Y coming later this year things can only get better! It’s my great pleasure to announce our new giveaway which is TCG-themed with a great prize for one lucky winner: a set of 3 Pokémon TCG EX Power Tins! These three tins are the Spring 2013 releases and include a Black Kyurem tin, a White Kyurem tin, and a Keldeo tin. Each one contains the signature EX card of the Pokémon featured on the tin as well as a special Meloetta card. In addition there are 4 Black & White series boosters packed in which means the lucky winner will be opening 12 booster packs! Each tin also features an extra code to unlock more cards in the Online Pokémon Trading Card Game. Ready to find out how you can win!?
HOW TO ENTER: Please comment once on THIS POST telling us what your very first Pokémon TCG memory is! Don’t have one? What would you like your very first card to be? The entry time is 1 week and lasts from TODAY (May 10th) to May 17th at 12am CST. Good luck!
Unfortunately due to shipping concerns I must limit the contest to the 48 continental US states… sorry(*BUT READ BELOW). Also in the case that something happens and we cannot deliver a prize there is no value which will be awarded to the winner ($0). Don’t foresee anything happening, but I just want to make the terms clear. Visitors under the age of 13 must get parental approval for any method of entry into the contest (comment, retweet, Facebook comment, or forum post).
Did you just read that disclaimer…? Because there are actually ways to get BONUS entries! Follow us and retweet this tweet on Twitter, “Like” us on Facebook and like our status here, AND post in our forum (which you can log into via Twitter account) in this thread for up to 3 extra chances to win! Cool, huh?
*For those of you outside the US there are still runner up prizes that you’re eligible for! 3 extra winners will be chosen and they will each get a downloadable Pokémon from our staff member Dan and if they’re members of our forum Mt. Moon Community they’ll get special VIP status!
Hope you’re excited about this as I am! As always, love everyone who keeps checking back for the latest Pokémon news and articles! Wouldn’t be worth it without YOU!
<3 PJ
My first real memory was a game I played against a friend of mine. He played Garchomp/Altaria, and had me help him test against Darkrai. Needless to say, I got crushed. I started playing shortly after, ultimately culminating in my quitting the TCG a few weeks ago.
My first memory of the Pokemon TCG was taking my cousin’s cards, but I know they were from the original. I didn’t even know what they were for, I just liked looking at the artwork of the Pokemon. Here I am now, still loving Pokemon 🙂
Okay, so my timeframe is a bit messed up, but I believe two things simultaneously contributed to my first memory, the first of which was suddenly getting into buying and trading cards based on solely the Pokemon and artwork (I recall wanting a Pidgeot quite badly, and receiving it one birthday); the second was all the fake cards (mostly just mashups or crappy copies of real ones) and how some of my friends would claim to have real cards of Pokemon which didn’t exist (E.g. Mewthree, a Ditto evolution called Ditliya).
My first memory was in the fifth grade, getting a huge number of common cards and trying to build a viable deck with just them, haha… I never really won, ever.
When I opened a base set pack when I was 3-5 and got a Nine tales holo
Everyone buying those cards just for the pretty pictures and because it was cool. We had no idea how to actually play the damn game.
The first memory I can think of dates back to when I was about 7 or 8 years old (currently 21). My brother and I each got two packs of Pokemon cards from our local K-Mart. I opened mine and got common cards, nothing out of the ordinary. His two packs? They both held the iconic foil Charizard card from the first set (cannot for the life of me remember the set name). TWO in two packs. I was so jealous. Mom made him give me one to make it fair. (:
A follow up to my first memory, my most VIVID memory of the TCG is when my cousins had a Sneasel EX card from a newer set around my freshman year in high school (possibly 7 years ago). I remember them saying they didn’t want it or something and I was acting out so I chewed up the card. I don’t even know what the hell I was doing. :S
Ah going to my grannys house and she would always give me and my brother 5 dollars each. When we would leave her house we would beg my mom to take us to the store right away and buy a pack of cards. I use to always go with the Venasuar pack. We would open them in the car on the way home and compare which ones we got. And as soon as we got home, if we had any doubles we would invite our friends from up the street over to trade. I remember my dad telling me to be careful about which ones i trade so i dont end up crying haha.Its one of my favorite childhood memories. c:
Dear Missus Jenny,
Hi there! I was reading this article not too long ago and had the good fortune to stumble across your tale! I was, for lack of a more imaginative phrase, feeling very sad that day, and I’d just like you to know that your anecdote really brightened my day 🙂 I used to play Pokemon all the time with my late friend at the local recreational center, and it makes me happy to know that others were able to experience something similar 🙂
I know that you may not even be able to find this message, but if by some serendipitous event you come across it, just know that if there’s ever anything you need, I’d be happy to be of service 🙂
Sincerely,
Spooky
P.S. – I hope that nothing so sad as to make tears grace your cheeks ever did happen.
The oldest TCG memory was when I was 3 and an older kid in my school gave me his holo moltres. I have had that card since that day and I am now 18 after learning that old friend died in a car crash about 8years ago. I will always be great full for the little gift because without it I wouldn’t be as big of a card collector or Pokemon fan after all these years.
My first memory of receiving my first Pokemon card was when my cousin from Miami came to visit and he brought me a whole bunch of Pokemon cards. We both split the cards and I suppose battled ^_^. My favorite card was a reversed hallow lapras card. Playing with the Pokemon cards is what opened me up to becoming one of the many fan based people who just fell in love with the Pokemon series 🙂
My first memory of receiving my first Pokemon card was when my cousin from Miami came to visit and he brought me a whole bunch of Pokemon cards (first gen, the first cards released in US). We both split the cards and we battled ^_^. My favorite card was a hallow lapras card. Playing with the Pokemon cards is what opened me up to becoming one of the many fan based people who just fell in love with the Pokemon series 🙂
and that’s my first pokemon card memory ^-^
My first memory of the TCG is buying a pack and pulling a Pidgeotto rare and just finding the cards so awesome. Those were such cool days. I loved everything about those cards. Still do, in fact. I play all the time down at the local comic shop with my Rayeels and Crobat (now Deobat) decks.
my frist pokemon card memory when my friend showed me a japanese scyther and then my other friend opening his frist pack and getting a charizard which at the time none of knew how rare that was
My first memony of the TCG was me sitting on my front porch waiting for my dad to get home. I was pretty young and wasn’t supposed to be outside by myself. while I was waiting my neighbors son, who was maybe eight or nine years older than me, came outside. he saw me sitting there and came over and talked to me . after a fewminutes he brought up Pokemon and I got really excited to talk about it. he then reached into his pocket and took out a handful of cards and gave them to me. they weren’t rare, pretty common actually, but they mean a lot to me because without them my love for Pokemon may never have started. I still have them fyi.
Oh goodness, my first TCG memory.. Well, it must have been before the first movie came out. I was all of 7 or 8, and my older brother was teaching me how to play. He had the original starter deck with the holographic Machamp, as well as a few Fossil and Jungle booster packs. I’m not sure which of us won, but I’ve remembered how to play it ever since!
Another early memory I have was going to see the first Pokemon movie in theaters. Between my family and I, we got all of the promotional cards. I was sitting next to a friend from school, and he said he had gotten a Mew card. Mew was my favorite Pokemon, and I thought that there was an actual Mew card that I didn’t get. (It was just a card with an advertisement on it, which I still have.) But me being the kid I was, I started crying. My friend gave me his, and even though I saw it wasn’t an actual Mew card, I was thankful.
My first memory was finally getting that base set Charizard. But that is very cliche and rather share this story with you.
Literally last night my friends and I decided to have a five way pokemon tcg battle. We would flip two coins to see who we would attack. The first coin decided two out of the four opponents and the second picked one out of those two. It was a very hectic game but it was still extremely fun.
I don’t really have any memories of experience with the TCG, as I am a collector, not a player. But I definitely remember my very first card, and how I got it. I was in 3rd or 4th grade, and some kid just gave me a card while on the school bus. It was a Base Set Staryu card. Soon after, I became addicted to the anime, and then I began collecting more cards, and I’ve been doing that ever since. I’ve never played the card game, as I never fully understood it. But I am simply content with being a collector. I aim to obtain one copy of every single card there is, from ever single set
My first Pokemon tcg memory was getting my holographic mewtwo and blastoise card in the first five packs I ever received.
I am 22, my earliest memory comes from a time of being 9 years old (oh childhood where did you go?) visiting the local Toys’R’Us store. My cousin, my brother and I, had all went to get signed up for the Trading Card League there. Unfortunately, my cousin and brother were the only one’s who could battle with the other kids because they had actual decks of cards. I had to persuade my mother to get me my first booster pack. Lucky me, seeing that my mom always bought them for my brother – she decided to make him a bit jealous by buying me the actual “Pokemon TCG” game for Gameboy Color from the same Toys’R’Us during the same day. Boy was I happy when I went to open the box and received my very first Trading Card, a holographic Meowth (with GB printed on the picture – for “Gameboy”) wrapped in plastic behind the cartridge. I screamed out of happiness. And guess what, 13 years later… I still have the GB Meowth in perfect condition, untouched – still in the same plastic. Just thinking of it is getting me emotional haha.
My first memory wad for my 10th birthday i got like 10 packs and all of them were junk except for the last which was a shining celebi.
My first memory of Pokemon TCG is when I was about 5 years old my cousins came to visit and because they knew that I liked Pokemon they bought a ton of booster packs that contained about 80 cards in total and kept a few for themselves but left me with some very sweet cards that included two mewtwo cards that I still have to this very day 😀
I feel like I don’t stand a chance at winning. All these people have such… Memories. My first cards were a Cranidos and a Dodrio from the Diamond & Pearl series that i got at afterschool care. That was really my gateway to Pokémon. That was back in about maybe… 2008-2009. However, a couple years back, all of my best cards (i.e. EXs, Lv.Xs, Legendaries, etc.) were stolen, and since then, I’ve been trying to build back up my collection. Winning this competition would be awesome for my collection, and hopefully, I’ll have my my boys back.
My first TCG memory was when i got this Dragonite card w/ the kids WB signature (in gold) on the right hand of dragonites pic for Pokemon the 1st Movie that was my 1st Pokemon card I still hav it (^-^)
My earliest memory was going to my friend’s house, and getting a holo Charizard from Jungle! I am 15!
Aww… why must I live in Canada. OTL
Well, here’s my story, regardless…
My brother used to have a fair amount of cards. I was too young to really get any of the collecting stuff, and I didn’t have any of my own cards. My first card was one that my brother was going to get rid of; a first edition base set charizard card. It was in absolutely terrible condition, but I felt sad seeing it go. I got him to give it so me and I took it everywhere I went and talked to it. It was my imaginary friend as a child. I still give it its own page in my card binder of thousands upon thousands of Pokemon cards. It’s one of my biggest childhood treasures.
Other than that, nothing really interesting has happened to me in the world of TCG. I used to go to tournaments regularly… but I can’t afford as many cards as I used to be able to, so it’s getting too hard for me to keep up with everything. xD