Trading Cards 101

The Pokémon Trading Card Game (ポケモンカードゲーム, Pokemon Kādo Gēmu, "Pokémon Card Game"), shortened to PTCG or Pokémon TCG, is a collectible card game based on Nintendo's Pokemon franchise.

It was first published in October 1996 by Media Factory in Japan. In the US it was initially published by Wizards of the Coast.

Nintendo eventually transferred the rights to The Pokemon Company, who have released the game since June 2003. As of March 2021, more than 34.1 billion cards have been sold worldwide.

My Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. The story follows Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without superpowers (called Quirks) in a world where they have become ordinary, but who still dreams of becoming a superhero himself.

He is scouted by All Might, Japan's greatest hero, who chooses Midoriya as his successor and shares his Quirk with him after recognizing his potential, later helping him enroll him in a prestigious high school for heroes-in-training.

Weiß Schwarz (ヴァイスシュヴァルツ, Vaisu Shuvarutsu) is a Japanese card game created by Bushiroad. The game is divided into Weiß-side and Schwarz-side.

"Weiß" and "Schwarz" in German are white and black respectively.