Sites

Databases & News

Bulbapedia - "Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia about Pokémon to which anyone can contribute. Since its launch in February 2005, it has grown to become one of the largest Pokémon resources on the internet." 

PokéBeach - A Pokémon TCG fan site famous for early merchandise reveals, early card reveals, and their Japanese translations.  

PokéGuardian - "PokéGuardian is a fan site dedicated to the Pokémon Trading Card Game, run independently by enthusiasts of the game. The website serves as a source of up-to-date news, blogs, interviews, columns, podcasts, and other TCG-related content." 

Pokémon Card Database - A database of every Pokémon card that has ever existed.  

Pokémon.com - The franchise's official website.  

Serebii.net - A fan site known for its information on the animations and video games.  Also famous for "PokéEarth" wherein every video game's catchable Pokémon and trainers are detailed for every route.  Huge database like Bulbapedia.  

Deck Building

Justin Basil - A Redditor famous for his Pokémon card translations, his website details what to play in both meta and non-meta budget decks.  Also known for the Eternal format. 

My Limitless TCG Decks - Build decks online without recourse to PTCGL.  

Pokégear - “The comprehensive deck builder and viewer for the Pokémon Trading Card Game based on the pokemontcg.io API.”   

PokémonCard.io - A site to post one's builds and receive feedback. 

PokémonCardMaker.net - Make your own custom Pokémon cards!  

 
PokémonProxies.com - Print proxy cards from the most recent, unreleased expansions.   

Proxycroak - Print proxy cards for at-home practice.   

Training Court - Record PTCGL battle logs and keep track of your regional round results.  

Japanese Sites

Note:  For the most part, you will need a browser translation add-on to use these sites.

HouHou News - Has not been updated in a while.  Summarizes card market prices and Champions League deck lists. 

PokécaBook - The most popular Japanese Pokémon TCG website for deck lists.  Covers a whole array of archetypes, especially rogue ones.  (Scroll to the bottom and click "other".)  

Pokécard Lab - Summarizes Gym Battle- and City League tournament deck lists.   

PokékaMeshi - Summarizes Gym Battle- and City League tournament deck lists.  Also helps Japanese players set-up VPN access for PTCGL.   

Pokéka Win Decks - Links to the page where the strength of an archetype is "calculated with a focus on deck recipe strength and usage" as per top 16 finishes in Japanese City League tournaments.  It also shows which Ace Specs are most popular in a given winning archetype.  

Retro Deck Sites

Cardboard Warriors - Gym Leader Challenge deck lists and tournaments.   

Gym Leader Challenge - The official website for the Gym Leader Challenge format.   

Pokémon Retro Decks - Hosted by Top Cut Events, this site archives decks from 2003-2012. 

Pokémon TCG Archive - Decks from the Wizards of the Coast era, Nintendo era, 2004-2013 Worlds formats, and Japanese events.  

PTCG Legends - "PTCG Legends is a resource catered towards the competitive Pokémon TCG community, with event info, results, stats, player info, and the game's history at the site's forefront. Prior to the site's launch no other site covered major events from 1999-2022+." 

PTCG Retro Library - Covers decks 2006-2016.  

Retro Pokémon TCG - World champion Jason Klaczynski's site chronicling the game's formats from 1999-2016.  Contains numerous deck lists, strategies, and discussions.  

SixPrizes - An archive of all older Pokémon TCG articles written on now-Expanded format archetypes.  

Tournaments & Rules

Limitless Labs - Go through each archetype's use and results in regionals and special events.  TONS of numbers.  Lists every competitor in a given event with their full sixty.  Information pulled from RK9 Labs.  

Limitless TCG - The most famous site for reviewing recent tournament results and decklists, as well as organizing- and competing in online tournaments.  Also has a proxy printer, card database, Swiss calculator, tabletop simulator, player rankings, and deck list image generator.  

PokéGym - Rules for how cards interact.  Includes a forum.  

Pokémon Rulings Compendium - "The Pokémon Trading Card Game Rulings Compendium is a compilation of official rulings from The Pokémon Company, International (TPCi) for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. This resource is compiled and published by Team Compendium, Inc."  

PokéStats - "PokéStats was founded in late 2016 by American player Tate Whitesell, who became interested in the competitive Pokémon TCG after watching the 2016 World Championships but realized the game lacked a serious resource for statistics-based content."  

Trainer Hill - "Trainer Hill is your dedicated platform for in-depth competitive analysis of the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG). Our aim is to provide players with the tools and insights they need to make informed, strategic decisions in their gameplay and deck building."  Documents how many of which card are used in which archetypes taken from data on Limitless.com.  Includes a badge maker, battle journal, deck difference table comparison, deck difference Venn diagram, prize checker exercise, and tier list creator.