How many Pokemon cards are in your hand?

Each player brings their own unique deck of exactly 60 cards to a game of the Pokemon TCG. When you are setting up for a game, shuffle your deck and place it to the top right of your play area. At the beginning of each game, you draw 7 cards. This is known as your starting hand.

What is a hand in Pokemon?

Step One: Each player must have a full, legal deck. These seven cards are your “hand.” Both players must then check their hand to make sure they have at least one basic Pokémon—if not, they have to “mulligan,” which is when the player has to reshuffle his or her hand with their deck and draw seven new cards.

Do you have to wait a turn to evolve Pokemon?

BASIC POKÉMON ON BENCH Page 11 11 Evolution notes:Neither player can evolve a Pokémon on its first turn in play. When you evolve a Pokémon, it means that Pokémon is new in play, so you can’t evolve it a second time the same turn! You can evolve any Pokémon you have in play, whether it’s Active or Benched.

Can you retreat first turn?

Players may retreat only once during a turn. Players may play only one stadium in a single turn. Players may NOT play a stadium with same name as one currently in play. Players may NOT use card effects to evolve on the first turn a Pokemon is played.

Can you play a supporter on your first turn?

Supporter Cards Unlike other Trainer cards that have been around since game launch – like Item -, you can only play one Supporter card per turn. As of the Sword and Shield set becoming tournament legal on February 21st, 2020, the player who goes first cannot play a Supporter card on the first turn.

What can you do first turn Pokemon?

No one can evolve first turn. You can’t evolve a pokemon unless it has been in play for an entire turn. As pokemon evolutions count as new pokemon in game terms, that means you can only evolve a pokemon one stage per turn, so no going from basic-> stage1 -> stage2 in a single turn.