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How many of you still play Pokemon as a card game?

My little brother wants to play using the newer rules and I have haven't played since the original ones.

Have they changed a great deal? and how is easy is it to learn?

Thanks,
Nom

If there were locals to play with, I would. It seems like a decent game. Go for it, I'm sure there's some local World Championship events near your area to give you people to play with. Check the Pokemon website for groups in your area.

My nephew and I play a few games a year. It's something we both grew up on and play out of nostalgia. The rules haven't changed much, but the cards have changed drastically. It's more fun these days in my opinion. As for whether or not it's easy to learn: I really don't think it could get any easier.

I play with my sons on occasion. It has essentially not changed since Basic all those years ago.

There are a few new features, EX pokemon which tend to have better health, do insane damage but count as two pokemon defeated if taken out.
Poke-body abilities that either change the rules or abilities of cards effecting the pokemon and poke-power abilities that are basically special moves the pokemon can do that aren't attack based.

The standard rules however, will be just as you remember them, and still lots of fun.

Some of my fave new features are Steel, Dark Pokemon decks are really easy to put together now due to starter decks focused on the powers, and my personal fave change are the out of sync Pokemon, so having a leaf pokemon with a fire variant, so multi colour decks are much easier to create, much like MtG.

yep played three of four times against the misses and once or twice against my son, and sadly my cardgame luck runs the same as when I played Morathi with L5R lol

I played in the first couple months it came out, proxied Magic cards for it...then got bored and never touched it again. It wasn't a bad game, but it just didn't hold up to the Gameboy game or other CCG card games around. Lord, though, it's better than Yu Gi Oh. That abomination should never have started.

Haven't touched anything Pokemon related since elementary school.

Yes, I do....rarely. FireRed for the nostalgia and Heartgold was cool too. I don't like all the new stuff they did...I don't want to make movies with my pokémon, I want to train them to fight...

I also love meta-gaming Pokémon. Spend hours on glitching FireRed / HeartGold to get the cool secrets.

/e: God damn it, didn't read the OP. Nope, not playing the TCG.

Its still strong enough in the UK, regionals, battle roads etc. the game itself is fun to play both casually or comp. so you can spend little or alot and still have something to play.

Though the top tier decks will still ruin most non comp decks as you'd expect.

I collected them like crazy, but I played the game like three times and hated it. It was just so...I'm not sure, but I went through yu-gi-oh back in the day and loved that system. Pokemon was overly complicated in comparison perhaps. This was back with basic/jungle/team rocket sets. I don't think I made it to the 152-251 monsters though. They were japanese only when I dropped.