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No, not for me. I'm told my nephews are pretty into the Pokemon CCG, but personally I haven't played a CCG for about 15 or so years, and even then it was MtG (wow that makes me feel SO OLD).

So I've been looking into what to get them that's more than 'here's a bunch of booster packs'. I'm told they don't even have deck holders, I'm assuming they don't have the game tokens and stuff. But I don't even know the game, so I don't know if there's multiple versions of the game and I might buy the wrong one, etc. So, throwing this out there - for starting Pokemon CCG players, would sets like this be a good deal?

Seems there's a premade deck in there, a couple of boosters, a deck holder, counters, and more. Or are these things separate from the main game?

 -Loki- wrote:
No, not for me. I'm told my nephews are pretty into the Pokemon CCG, but personally I haven't played a CCG for about 15 or so years, and even then it was MtG (wow that makes me feel SO OLD).

So I've been looking into what to get them that's more than 'here's a bunch of booster packs'. I'm told they don't even have deck holders, I'm assuming they don't have the game tokens and stuff. But I don't even know the game, so I don't know if there's multiple versions of the game and I might buy the wrong one, etc. So, throwing this out there - for starting Pokemon CCG players, would sets like this be a good deal?

Seems there's a premade deck in there, a couple of boosters, a deck holder, counters, and more. Or are these things separate from the main game?

I've played pokemon tcg for a long time then moved on to magic then got burned out on the whole random pack thing. It was like keeping track of the stock market.

From time to my my girl friend and I breakout my old cards and have a game or with my pokemon cards, with the original 150+1 pokemon. None of this new age crap young people have.

The game today is 99.9 percent the same from when I played.


According to the link you gave plus from the bulbapedia break down (link below)

It is your common pokemon starter deck, except this deck has all foils (something that wasn't around when I played). The deck you get will be very vanilla but contains all the basics you need to play. Damage tokens (they were glass beads when I played), a cool little coin and a game mat that is really only necessary for your first few games. Price-wise it's not great but it is a limited edition product, maybe they will be the cool kids on the playground?

I was when I was the first kid to get a Charizard 1st edition.

2 booster packs a deck box, a pin, game mats and a few other things you would find in that particular starter.

themed decks go for about 12 to 15 bucks alone and generally come with counters but not with all those extras listed such as a deck box and boosters.

There isn't multiple versions of the game as long as it is licensed by nintendo or if you want the old cards, Wizards of the Coast. The product your asking about is an official nintendo product and can be played with any pokemon TCG.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Red_Genesect_Collection_(TCG)

nintendo's webpage on the product

http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/tcg_red_genesect_box-2013-09-25/

Thank you muchly!

The Red Genesect box is really cool. I recently got back into the game, picked up 2 of them and am really happy. All the cards are really pretty, plus you get 2 packs per box, a deckbox, pin, counters, and a cool coin. I'm taking the game a bit more seriously than I bet they are, but at least the cards are a good deal. Barring that, the tins aren't super bad as you get a cool promo, few extras like packs, and a tin to put stuff in.