If you like Pokémon, you might want to give Temtem a try. It's very similar in play because you collect creatures and bring them to fight other players. This used to be a PC title, but recently ported to consoles. Source: over 2 years ago

Hi r/NintendoSwitch! We're a handful of members from the Crema team. After a couple of years of Early Access, our project, Temtem, an MMO monster-taming experience, is ready to launch worldwide tomorrow at last on Nintendo Switch! Source: over 2 years ago

Hi r/games! We're part of the Crema team. We've been working on Temtem, an MMO monster-taming experience, for some years now. It's leaving Early Access and launching tomorrow on Xbox SXS, Switch, and reaching 1.0 on PS5 and Steam. Source: over 2 years ago

Obviously it's not the Pokemon IP, but check out TemTem[1]. The world feels much more alive and they've implemented raids, PVP, and other MMO features. [1] https://crema.gg/games/temtem/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

As an aside, have you considered playing Temtem? It describes itself as a massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure. Even in its Early Access state, Temtem delivers a bunch of features listed here. Source: over 3 years ago

It's avaialbe for PC, MacOS, Android and iOS, though you can redeem them through pokemon.com website as well. They are digital versions of the same physical cards. The idea being you could play against your friends or stangers with the same physical cards. In addition, pokemon live has ranking and rewards so you can earn diiatl booster packs or earn digital decks for play. Source: almost 2 years ago

To meet the extremely high demand, they have manafacturing locations in several places in Japan (pokemon.com didn't elaborate more than that) for cards for the japan market. I couldn't find the original post on the pokemon.com website (it was a couple month's ago), but this site reprinted it https://www.pokebeach.com/2022/09/pokemon-japan-takes-action-against-resealed-booster-boxes. Source: almost 2 years ago

Not sure if it's the same with your venue but ours required pokemon.com "Let's Play" IDs. You'll need to create your account on pokemon.com then add your child to your account at which point you can get both of your "Let's Play" IDs. This is helpful for the organizers to work out who goes to juniors/seniors and masters brackets. Source: about 2 years ago

Also dont buy from amazon... Buy from pokemon.com or anything on tcgcollector. Source: about 2 years ago

Browsing the internet before google. Immagine trying to find sites to read without a search engine. nintendo.com sega.com pokemon.com trying to find relevant domain names to your interest yet have it yield almost no reward, a basic site outlining their products. Source: about 2 years ago