*What Does It All Mean???* Pokemon Card Tiers Explained (ex, Star, Prime, EX, GX, Tag Team, V, VMAX)

you brought this 34 yr old who is getting back into collecting and playing (with sword and shield) after 20 years away up to speed perfectly! thank you!

This needs like 50 million views. After being away for around 20 years this caught me right up to speed. Thanks a ton for making this video.

I think the most alienating thing about the pokemon TCG has always been the power creep and the tiers. A new player looks at a "ultra mega ex, gx tag team snorlax mewtwo" or whatever and their just like "wtf even is that?" So thanks for this.

Hey! I'm a starter collector who wanted to know what all of this meant lol. Anyways, you don't know how helpful this video was to me! Seriously. Thank you for making it when no one did. I can understand them better now. Again, thanks!

This has to be one of the coolest walkthroughs on YouTube. Clear and concise, and gets us up to speed when looking at pokemon cards.

As a returning collector trying to learn how to actually play the game, with some no nonsense charisma. Thanks ma dude! Will be back

my son, aged 9, is just getting into Pokemon. 1st pack of Vivid Vottage, pulled a Amazing Rare Jirachi. He's hooked.

Pushing 40 years old, and rekindling into this game which I haven't played since High School ('99), so I can introduce my nephew & niece to the awesome world of Pokémon. These cards are just too cool, at any age. Incredibly helpful video, with excellent explanation. 10/10!! Thank you so much for taking the time to make it. Enjoy a well-deserved new subscriber to your channel - cheers!

Little bonus: Amazing Rare cards’ use of multiple energy types is a callback to the Shining cards of the Neo era!

I really think the coolest cards were the Pokémon LEGEND cards where you had to combine two halves or more of a card to get one super powerful Pokémon. They weren’t exactly practical in gameplay, but man were they cool.

ive wondered about this forever i didnt even know Mega EX was just an evolved form of an EX and i needed to learn about V MAX as well Thank You SO much i watched the whole thing thanks!! keep it up!

after playing magic for 30 years and playing pokemon as a kid, i recently started getting into it again with the anticipated release of 151 (i am a huge sucker for nostalgia bait). I was overwhelmed by all the different versions of pokemon, but you got me right into it and up to speed with that video. Thank you!

Finally really useful. I am returning to collecting Pokemon cards since I was a kid more than 12+ years ago.... All I remember were EX and X cards now there's different EX, X,GX, V,V max, tag team, full arts... what the hell lol

My father's friend gave me and my brothers a whole ton of pokemon cards, and we have quite a bit of of pokemon like delta magicarp, electrivire x, and others. Your video brought my attention to a lot of other things I never new existed! Thanks for sharing :)

As someone who doesn’t play or follow the tcg side of Pokémon. This video was very informative for me and it helped me understand the different tiers. Keep up the good work. May this channel grow more.

Huge thumbs up! Thanks so very much for explaining this. I think the new Scarlet and Violet generation 'ex' has been the best iteration of OP cards in history. It's as if they're at least finally starting to comprehend the importance of balance, pacing, evolution. The new 'ex' can come in basics or evolutions. But they all stay true to their designation evolutions according to the Pokédex. No more insane inconsistencies. And they also seem much more balanced out. They aren't like GX cards that have a one-time super. I don't know if you can tell any other differences between GX and the current ex. But I think what we have now is the most significant improvement this TCG has ever had compared to any previous generation.

This is a perfect video explaining all the newer tiers of pokemon cards as time went on. I stopped when there was the team rocket and gym leader pokemon cards. You explained them at the right level when I stopped. Cuz when I downloaded this pokemon trading card game app, it showed me all these newer series cards and I was like "what the hell did I miss all these years? What's this card? Why the hell do these cards have like 260 HP (since the highest old was like 130 HP or something) What does this skill mean, etc.?" Thank you so much for taking the time for us old schoolers to get caught up. Lol

This helped me realize my Shining Noctowl is a treasure I should have my eye on.

Great video. Started collecting in 1999. Stopped later on and started again in 2009. Stopped again after a couple of years and started once again now. Didn't have a clue what each symbol meant. Thanks a lot

Thanks so much for this. This really helped inform me about all the formats I didn’t know (I only knew EX, GX, and Tag Team). Btw the one other thing I’d say that stood out about tag team pokemon was their GX attack. It had an initial pretty powerful effect but they all had a similar extra clause if you had extra energy attached