There will never be a Pokémon TCG collecting guide that truly covers everything that you may want it to. In one way or another, they are all lacking something. But, that doesn’t mean you should click off this article. In fact, it means the opposite. Why? Because in admitting that this article lacks something, you can more easily be pushed into the direction of finding that something. Let’s Pokémon TCG collecting is not straightforward. It’s personal, and the process it changes a lot depending on your intentions. A competitive player, for example, will have a vastly different outlook on which cards are valuable and which are not, when compared with a collector. Even a collector could entail countless types of people. Some may only collect a particular set from their childhood, whereas others collect any and everything. But, the fine details are something we’ll take a look at later. For now, let’s start at the beginning and define two important categories; collectors, and competitive players.