>>45226892The pokemon tcg is one of the easiest tcg's out there. Its dead simple. Idk how you're misunderstanding the rules this much. 5 is a bit young to play the game but with help from you or Mom to read the cards for him, hre should be able to do it with the new cards or the old school cards because they're pretty simple. Starting out learning how to play the game at this age, I would recommend buying two different starter decks. They come with rule books that go over pretty much everything. Make sure they have sword and shield on them and are shaped like pic related. Those decks are around the same power level and come with the most up to date rules. There are better decks to buy if you're interested in the more competitive side of things but he's definitely too young for that right now. The trainer toolkit product might be useful if you need a bunch of good trainers to improve his decks. Same goes for League Battle Decks or Battle arena decks. If those starter decks are too complicated, I would suggest building some old school base set, jungle, and fossil pokemon decks. The pokemon themselve are far simpler with most of the complexity coming from the trainers which are also simple. You can sleeve up the cards and print proxy's to do this. The rules back then are a little different from what they are now, but using the newer rules won't hamper the game play that much.
I would be careful of giving him ptcgo at 5 like some of the anons in this thread are suggesting. There are parental features included if I remember correctly, but giving him an iPad and ptcgo that young will unironically make him autistic.
Resources:
Newest tcg rule book:
https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/rulesCheap singles (also eBay):
https://store.tcgplayer.com/help/pokemonProxy printing website:
https://proxycroak.com/Resource for hard rulings:
https://compendium.pokegym.net/Old school pokemon decks:
https://jklaczpokemon.wordpress.com/ 