This is is a companion book to the first book in this series 'Pokémon: Trading Card Game: Player's Guide", ISBN: 1884364500. It is a guide to collecting, trading and playing the card came 'Pokémon: Trading Card Game", it looks at the 'Basic', 'Starter', 'Theme', and 'Booster Decks'. As well as the 'Jungle', 'Fossil' Expansion sets, and the Japanese cards. It tells how much the decks usually cost, the numer of cards, types, rarity of the cards, and listings of all of the new cards. There are many color images of many of the cards, as well as occational artwork taken from the cards, detail views of certain points about card designs, photographs of tournaments and other card game related products. According to the title page, and back side cover, this book is written by three authors, however Mark Elies, isn't listed on the front cover, which was illustrated is by Vanessa Adams.