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Major tournaments, including the Pokmon World Championships, helped increase interest in competitive play

The intense demand for Pokmon trading cards, which steadily rose in recent years then rocketed up even more during the pandemic, has caused Target to temporarily suspend sales of the cards, citing a threat to the safety of customers and workers

The one of the goals of the TCGO seems to be to emulate the experience of playing the card game in real life, and the single player campaign takes you through a tournament hosted by a fictional game store, with 15 AI opponents (all with unique personalities and flavor text, including some good-natured trash talking), who you challenge through four leagues of 12 games each for a total of 48 games

Arguably, without the enormous success and incredible innovations of Magic: The Gathering, the Pokemon Trading Card Game certainly in its current form may never have existed

Archived from the original on 12 July 2016

The Pokemon Trading Card Game is currently enjoying a boom period, which has left many card packs out of stock