Pokemon TCG Celebrations Format Legalities Explained: Where You Can Play Your Celebrations Cards

This year is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon's 25th Anniversary, and the TCG is celebrating with a special set full of reprints, remixes and returning mechanics. Comprised of the 50 card Celebrations set proper, and several tie-in products featuring their own promo cards, it's one of the most exciting releases of the year for the game.

That being said, Celebrations can also be pretty confusing when it comes to which cards you can play in which formats. Here is eve🌟rything you need to know ab🃏out which formats Celebrations is legal in.

Standard

Kyogre with the Regulation Mark highlighted. — Look for a D or E regulation mark to see if a card is legal in the current Standard.

The easiest way to tell if a card in Celebrations is legal in the current (post-September 10, 2021) Standard is to check the bottom left corner of the card. If it's Standard-legal, there will be a small D or E regulation mark. If there isn't, it isn't.

In Celebrations, the entire of the main set is Standard-legal, and so are most of the promo cards that come in tie-in products. ෴That means the following cards from Celebrations are legal in the Sta꧙ndard format:

Ho-oh
Reshiram (002/025 version)
Kyogre
Palkia
Pikachu
Flying Pikachu V
Flying Pikachu VMAX
Surfing Pikachu V
Surfing Pikachu VMAX
Zekrom (010/025 version)
Mew
Xerneas
Cosmog
Cosmoem
Lunala
Zacian V
Groudon
Zamazenta V
Yvetal
Dialga
Solgaleo
Lugia
Professor's Research
Mew
Pikachu VMAX
Lance's Charizard V
Dark Sylveon V
Pikachu V
Poke Ball
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Expanded

Expanded is where Celebrations' legality gets more complicated, as the cards must have either been debuted in, or been reprinted in, an expansion released since the original 2011 Black & White base set.

Celebrations confuses things a bit because it is both introducing a range of new cards to the Expanded format and reprinting a number of older ca🎃rds that may or may not be legal, depending on when they were last printed. All of the Standard-legal cards listed above are also legal in Expanded, as well as:

Reshiram (113/114 version)
Zekrom (114/114 version)
Mewtwo EX
Tapu Lele GX
Xerneas EX
M Rayquaza EX
Here Comes Team Rocket!

Legacy

Legacy is a digital-only format that uses cards from between 2010's HeartGold & SoulSilver base set and 2013's Legendary Treasures. While Legacy is being phased out with the introduction of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon TCG Live, you can still redeem Celebrations boosters on TCG Online, meaning you could play with some of these cards in Legacy for the few months it's still around.

The cards legal in Legacy are:

Reshiram (113/114 version)
Zekrom (114/114 version)
Mewtwo EX
Donphan
Poke Ball

Unlimited

Unlimited is an unofficial format that allows any cards released to be played. It's the format you're most likely to play at the kitchen table or with friends, whereas Standard and Expanded are the two supported at official events.

In Celebrations, there are a few cards that are specifically barred from organiওsed tournament play, meaning you can only play them in Unlimited or another fan-made format. These are: