Pokémon TCG Pocket Is Adding Improved Trading, Card Gifting, And More
After a bit of a rough stretch, Pokémon TCG Pocket developer DeNA announced that several highly requested features are coming to their mobile card collecting game, including improvements to trading, the ability to share cards with friends, and upgrades to its Wonder Pick functionality.
As for sharing, while you could previously trade a card of the same rarity with someone on your friend list, there wasn’t a way to gift cards outright; now you will be able to do so. Admittedly, there are still some restrictions, as you can only receive one card a day this way, and you can only gift cards up to a maximum rarity of four diamonds (this is the rarest tier of non-alternative art cards). But even with these limitations, it’s still a big improvement over the current system.
Beyond this, trading has also been bolstered in a big way. The pool of tradable cards has expanded, and you can now trade two-star and shiny cards, which have rare alternative art. Before, you could trade cards up to a maximum of four diamond rarity. While three-star and crown rare cards are still untradable, there is a sizable cool of two-star rarity cards (especially the flashy Supporter cards) that were previously only obtainable through highly unfavorable pull rates.
Another big improvement is that cards from the most recent expansion can now be traded—before the most recent expansion was off limits for trading, meaning if you were playing competitively, you had to hope you’d luck out and get the latest meta cards before the next set releases and the meta resets.
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