

Outside of these scenarios, you may not copy the Compendium for any reason. You may make copies of the Compendium for your own, personal, non-commercial usage, as well as for limited, free distribution at Play! Pokémon events by players/Judges to fellow players/Judges. As such, the best way to share the Compendium is to link to us! Please link to the top level URL of the site ( ), as over the years, the Compendium pages may change filenames/locations.

We want to make sure the current version of the Compendium is always available for free, ensuring that all players and Judges have access to the most recent rulings. Outside of these, however, rulings are made as needed based on the state of the game. Rest assured, we will update the site.Īs a general rule of thumb, rulings are often made when new cards are released, especially just prior to the Prerelease tournaments of a new set. All members of Team Compendium are volunteers and have lots of responsibilities, so please be patient if it has been a while since the latest update. However, there is no fixed schedule for when ruling updates will be posted. The Compendium is updated regularly, and has been for over 20 years. Source: PUI Rules Team () How often is the Compendium updated? The Pokémon Company International has also endorsed the Compendium, going back to when it was still Pokémon USA:

And it’s the rulings that are important.ĭespite not being an official document, the Compendium is mentioned as a resource on Pokémon’s support portal under the question “How do I become a Professor?”. We are always careful to be clear that the rulings are official. Is the Compendium an official Pokémon TCG document?

If we do clarify a ruling’s intent, we try to minimize adding to or changing text and always identify such changes by using around the clarification text. The vast majority of these rulings are literal “copy-and-paste” from WotC chat transcripts or PUI/TPCi Rules Team update logs, although we often clean up spelling, grammar and punctuation (which are often less than optimal in real-time chats) and occasionally add wording for clarity. If you have doubts as to the accuracy of the Compendium, we have provided the source for each and every one of these rulings, so that you may verify them if you wish. Our only direct input into the text of the rulings is to clean up typos and/or clarify intent. Rulings are collected from various official sources including documents published by The Pokémon Company International (including expansion FAQs), chat logs (from when Wizards of the Coast published the game), and private rulings meetings with The Pokémon Company International. This resource is compiled and published by Team Compendium, Inc. 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.
