{"id":42910,"date":"2018-08-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_pokemon_company_adds_tag_teams_to_the_official_trading_card_game"},"modified":"2018-08-25T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T04:00:00","slug":"the-pokemon-company-adds-tag-teams-to-the-official-trading-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/25\/the-pokemon-company-adds-tag-teams-to-the-official-trading-card-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pok\u00e9mon Company Adds Tag Teams To The Official Trading Card Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e80588d4653a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e80588d4653a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_pokemon_company_adds_tag_teams_to_the_official_trading_card_game\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a><\/strong> battles have continually grown in size over the years. Double battles are also making a comeback with the upcoming release of\u00a0<strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At this year&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon World Championships,\u00a0The Pok\u00e9mon Company revealed new &#8220;game-changing&#8221; cards for the official trading card game. Continuing on from Pok\u00e9mon-GX series is the announcement of TAG TEAM Pok\u00e9mon-GX. Essentially, it&#8217;s two pocket monsters on the same card teaming-up alongside each other, as seen in the anime and video game series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Company president Tsunekazu Ishihara\u00a0explained how the cards would feature pairs of the same type. The first card revealed\u00a0(as seen above) features Pikachu and Zekrom. The power and hit points of these cards are unprecedented &#8211; with the ability to knock out a monster on the opponent&#8217;s bench in a single blow. The only risk is if this tag team card is knocked out, the opponent takes three prize cards instead of one. TAG TEAM Pok\u00e9mon-<em>GX<\/em>\u00a0is coming soon, with more details to be shared in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Take a look at the announcement trailer, and tell us in the comments if you play the official TCG.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Pok\u00e9mon battles have continually grown in size over the years. Double battles are also making a comeback with the upcoming release of\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!. At this year&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon World Championships,\u00a0The Pok\u00e9mon Company revealed new &#8220;game-changing&#8221; cards for the official trading card game. Continuing on from Pok\u00e9mon-GX series is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}