Pokemon TCG Live Free-to-Play Guide - How to Get Every Card You Want For Free

I've been playing the Pokemon Trading Card Game for over a decade now, and as a veteran of the physical and digital card game through PTCGO, I'm here to help new players navigate Pokemon Trading Card Game Live, of PTCGL, or Pokemon TCG Live, as it's come to be known. Although trading isn't an option anymore, the game is extremely generous in the ways it lets players get new cards, and I'm going to show you all the ways you can build a dream deck without buying any packs to use code cards. If this gets a bunch of views I might even make a tutorial on the card game itself.
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[@fraxz88]

When you go up against someone that has way to many golden rares you know your getting flexed on.

[@MikeTheEntei]

This reminds me, I kinda wanna make a staple-crafting guide. Honestly it's not even super hard to get a decently blinged-out deck, apart from energies since you need so many of those. It shouldn't be a priority, but you can make most of your staples golden with just a couple months' worth of credits.

[@AdamTCG]

some people just migrated the right way and have over 250k credits to craft cards with...

[@arintheseatsesh6242]

Looking at the amounts of this dude's currency made me feel flexed on lol

[@MikeTheEntei]

As someone who hasn't found a new deck sibce maxing out my Chien-Pao, I have been amassing credits like it's nobody's business XD

[@GarredHATES]

I’m addicted to this game and I haven’t spent a dime lol

[@AdamTCG]

If people were smart, they would have had 4 copies of each celebrations card before migration to ptcgl. I did it, and exchanged 400 celebration codes and got well over a quarter million credits to make cards with. Months later and I still have 200k and every card needed for any deck.

[@a_miku_fan9633]

unfortunately not all of us played ptcgo to migrate with

[@bennithebest4062]

I was too lazy at that time lol

[@AGenericPerson]

Just started playing PTCGL after playing PTCGO a few years ago, currently trying to build some standard decks rn and that Celebrations tip for currency is awesome! Nice vid overall 💪🏽

[@MikeTheEntei]

Welcome to the newer and much-worse engine. UwU Any deck profiles you wanna see me make? XD

[@rusafulkarim8546]

I just started playing PTCG Live this game is so much better.

[@MikeTheEntei]

Better than what?

[@blackangelalex]

Previous pokemon program

[@rusafulkarim8546]

@@MikeTheEntei ptcgo < PTCGL

[@znothingfacez5681]

Eww no

[@dann1cus631]

I think buying the Calyrex vmax battle deck is the best way to farm credits. Pretty sure you're guaranteed 4k each time.

[@aklepatzky]

How come?

[@dann1cus631]

@@aklepatzky if you have all the cards already then they are worth 4k credits for the doubles

[@isidoreaerys8745]

Wow never heard this before.

[@Rystrocity]

Hi! I just started playing this month! Thank you this was a very helpful guide

[@MikeTheEntei]

You're welcome uwu

[@southern_blade4]

Thank you! I’ve been trying to look for way to do this but never found a way, this was very helpful!

[@MikeTheEntei]

Always glad to help. Figuring out how to spend smartly, so to speak, is kinda tough, but as you can see, it's rather simple once you know what to do.

[@southern_blade4]

@@MikeTheEntei yeah spending smartly is not my strong suit

[@SkywalkerOne1977]

Great video! Also, I'd recommend a pop filter for your mic.

[@9999deoxys]

this continues to age well.

[@cocoslastlife801]

Genius, Thanks for this buddy!

[@MikeTheEntei]

Hi! As @dann1cus631 mentioned, the Shadow Rider Calyrex deck is actually better than Celebrations packs when it comes to turning your crystals into credits. Please watch my secondary video for more details~ kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2SzYqiMZ9KdoNE

[@londalecarter3482]

Thanks! This advice is golden. I bought the 600 crystal pass and now im at 46/50. All I had to do is play the game!

[@MikeTheEntei]

Hell yeah. Start blinging out those energies! [Once you've played long enough to get the staples and deck cores you want, of course.]

[@playerfoundusername]

Casually pulls a golden mew and is like meh😂

[@MikeTheEntei]

Well, yeah, the Mew has nothing to do with my lesson >:3 Funny thing is it's one of the only cards from that set that's actually playable, and I use it in my Gardevoir deck. I pulled three golden mews before I got any little not-golden mews lol

[@brucewayne2956]

At long term is it worth going for Celebration packs rather than Calyrex preconstruct deck? I've heard that after pulling a lot of cards you can reach 6k on credits just by opening but I guess it's a matter of luck. You are guaranteed a minimum of 2.750 credits. So I guess it's more eorth buying the Calyrex deck multiple times.

[@MikeTheEntei]

@@brucewayne2956 I'm not entirely sure. I think the overall expected value is still less for Celebrations packs after completing the set, but it does cost fewer crystals, as well... I'm not sure which is better in the long term. I've been buying Celebrations packs for now because I have so many spare credits that I can afford to waste some crystals lol

[@1nfortunio]

Bro, when I click any pack theres appear a message saying "Small chance to upgrade to a super-rare card", how I can upgrade cards? Can you explain me that please :( nice video, I leave my like

[@MikeTheEntei]

Ah, that just means the card has a chance to be of a higher rarity. It's a gacha system of sorts; whether you actually get an ex or whatever is all up to chance.

[@rainbowquartz2.079]

Can someone explain why some cards are "prohibited"? I want to do a Celebi V deck but it won't let me

[@MikeTheEntei]

Celebi V is from an old set. Look in the bottom left corner of the card and you'll see a D symbol--that card isn't legal for the standard format anymore. Right now you have to use cards from E, F, or G.

[@nickyrob675]

Thank you so much, I just merged my PTCGO to Live and i was wondering what they did to replace the trading system. This video was very helpful 😀

[@MikeTheEntei]

Extremely glad to help. It took some getting used to on my end when I started. I'm sad trading is gone, but the costs of everything do make it pretty easy to build almost anything you want, fortunately.

[@Deltax5]

If i add a friend. Will it allow me to trade a card? Playing this now. Taking your advice. Collecting in real life must be expensive. To many cards. And it's kinda random. just want to play a friendly match. I can't now because the real cards have to much value.

[@MikeTheEntei]

You can't trade between friends, unfortunately. It's just collecting.

[@isidoreaerys8745]

Amazing trick

[@DSBOY33]

Yeah to get all the cards for free it's going to take a lot of grinding and not to mention a lot of losses first started 3 weeks ago and already got flexed on at least 30 times andwon 3 games (1 of them was because they took too long ran out of time)

[@gordoteuton4125]

can you still buy celebrations packs if you are max out and all the cards in it?

[@MikeTheEntei]

I'm not sure, but the secret rares would take a REALLY long time to max out.

[@adityaagarwal4263]

Hey I pulled a gold star switch trainer in the store packs, but on the deck the normal switch card shows up not the gold one, can someone help pleaseeeeeeeeee

[@MikeTheEntei]

Click on the Switch, then click the "available" button and scroll to the right. You'll be able to see every printing of the card, and the secret rares will be all the way to the right.

[@adityaagarwal4263]

@@MikeTheEntei THANK YOU SO MUCH BROOOOOO LOVE YOUUUU

[@9999deoxys]

great vid!

[@VIVIDTCG]

Cool video 👌👌👌

[@MikeTheEntei]

Why, thank you~Anything you think I should've done differently?

[@user-wp5ke6gv9y]

Hello can you recomend decks for new players that can be build easilly?

[@MikeTheEntei]

Charizard, Chien-Pao, and Gholdengo are good places to start. Pretry thick lines (mostly 3 or 4 of each card), and the way you're supposed to play each of those decks is pretty similar no matter what the matchup is.

[@Dragon_4046]

ok, but HOW DO I GET A V UNION

[@MikeTheEntei]

There are no V-Union cards in format anymore. You'll have to switch from "Standard" to "All" in the search filters.

[@aklepatzky]

How do I ger crystals if I have less than the 600 needed for the premium pass?

[@MikeTheEntei]

You get 60 every day by doing daily missions. You should do everything in your power to complete the one that gives you crystals.

[@MikeTheEntei]

oh and coins are used for trainer customization and deck sleeves and stuff

[@xTxrnt]

im kind of a year late to the vid but I just started two days ago and im at like tier 7 but there's only 6 days left in the pass. Should I rather save my 600 crystals for the next pass since I can't get all the tiers by the end. I only have 695 crystals total rn

[@xTxrnt]

tier 5 actually :(

[@RenoldSabajo-xc2hi]

Need to login

[@TheGhostGundam]

How you stream it

[@MikeTheEntei]

OBS

[@rhyscoz]

does anyone know how do you get chandelure vmax easily and chandelure v

[@nickfanzo]

So how long does this take to build an actual metagame tier deck to playtest? I play standard and I want to play online to playtest with my local store group . They have all the competitive tier one decks and all I have is the crap you start with

[@MikeTheEntei]

So, first of all, my video here is a bit wrong. I recommend getting Shadow Rider Calyrex decks, not Celebration packs. The first two times you buy the shadow rider deck, you won't get a lot of credits because you don't have four of everything yet. However, from the third time on, you should get around 4,000 credits. The deck costs 1,250 crystals, which means you can get the deck a little more than once every three weeks. (Around twice a month if you make it to Great League every time.) Each Pokemon-ex costs 750 credits, if I recall correctly. Most trainers cost 100 credits, but some Rare trainers and Pokemon are 400, I think. Based on all that, you can preeeeeetty much make a full deck from scratch every two or three months. However, a lot of trainer cards, such as Iono, Boss's Orders, and Professor's Research, are used in most of the relevant decks in the standard format. So, once you build one or two decks, you'll likely have most of the trainer cards you need to build others, and you'll mostly have to worry about the Pokemon from that point on. It's still a rather slow grind, since the daily challenges are pretty much all you can do to get crystals, apart from advancing through the leagues, and getting to ultra league is REALLY hard and time-consuming. Even Azul GG, one of the best Pokemon TCG players in the world, is almost always stuck in Great League during his streams. However, you only have to play a little bit every day. Most daily challenges can be completed in one or two matches, and if you complete the daily challenges every day, the battle pass will take care of itself. (There's five weeks to go on the current one and I'm already done.) Also!!!! Ask your locals if they allow proxies. If you have sleeves and own a printer, you can make paper versions of the cards you don't own and put them in front of any random card, and pretend like you have the real thing. Proxies are allowed by most people in casual play, and even in some unofficial tournaments. However, if you're going to official or serious tournaments and locations, you'll need the real cards. If you intend to trade or buy, use TCGplayer.com, not eBay. You'll get a more accurate view of what a card is worth there.

[@nickfanzo]

@@MikeTheEntei I own three physical decks for standard but I want to play test online vs friends when we can’t hang out. Thanks

[@isidoreaerys8745]

@@MikeTheEnteinot surprised to hear that. I gave up on the ranked ladder because the progress is SOOO slow you cannot keep up with the seasonal deranking.

[@MikeTheEntei]

Yeah. I almost always stop trying once I reach Great League.

[@RenoldSabajo-xc2hi]

Need your help please 🙏😢😢😢

[@randomrave6635]

Can i craft cards that i dont have?

[@MikeTheEntei]

You can! There should be a filters button, and you'll need to change one of the first filters from "owned" to "unowned" or "all".

[@OscarHowe-dm9mx]

Do you get banned for doing this

[@brucewayne2956]

Not at all. It's a game mechanic, you are not exploiting or taking advantage of the system.

[@costelinha1867]

Why would you? this is an intended game mechanic.

[@jimbojimbo6909]

when I use vpn Canada ,the game error network issue 10010 and then,use VPN USA ,my the same password was incorrect!! why???

[@Major_van_nature]

stolen time!

[@MikeTheEntei]

I hope I saved you a lot of time, if that is what you mean.

[@aa-tx7th]

bro the plosives why god 😭😭😭

[@MikeTheEntei]

What XD

[@BaoZakeruga]

the popping sound when you make the 'P' noise@@MikeTheEntei