After many weeks of teases, The Pokémon Company has finally revealed when we can expect to see Trading Card Game Pocket's next expansion and the long-awaited trade feature. Surprise! They're both arriving next week!
Trading will be the first to be added to the card-collecting app, with the feature going live on Tuesday 28th January. As specified in the info dump from TPC last week, trades can be made between friends and only with cards of the same rarity (◇1-◇4 and ☆1). As expected, consumable items will be required to make a trade, so prepare for even more currencies to keep track of.
One day later, the game's newest digital expansion, 'Space-Time Smackdown', arrives on 29th Jan (or 30th, depending on your timezone). It looks like Gen 4's Dialga and Palkia take centre stage in this one, with a whole host of new full arts, EXs and special Trainer cards to chase down. We hope you've been saving up those Pack Hourglasses.
Here's the official rundown of what this expansion has in store:
Are you ready to rumble? Discover a whole new expansion’s worth of cards in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket! Legendary Pokémon Dialga and Palkia from the Sinnoh region have bent time and space to rule the battlefield as dimension-altering Pokémon ex. The Space-Time Smackdown expansion features new cards including exciting Pokémon ex cards, new Trainer cards, and gorgeous immersive cards ready to bring you into the wondrous world of Pokémon. Here’s a sneak peek of some cards you can expect to see when the expansion launches on January 30.
It looks like it will be quite the week to round out January. We'd expect February to bring even more Pokémon news, with Pokémon Day and its expected Presents showcase hopefully bringing us more details from Legends: Z-A, TCG Pocket and mayyyyybe those classic remakes we've all been praying for (okay, perhaps there's a bit of wishful thinking going on there).
What do you make of the upcoming Trade feature and new expansion? Let us know in the comments.
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Can’t wait, now back to geting my 5 wins
Ooh, so looking forward to this new expansion along with finally trading even with those limitations!
Removed the game from my phone this week. Even a new expansion won't draw me back in. It's just too limited with 20 card decks, for me, personally. And I vowed to keep my phone screen time under 2 hours per day.
The lack of being able to trade for more rare cards is disappointing, especially since I have a majority of the accepted rarity levels. Might only be missing 10-12 total i believe across all cards, but there are a lot of two star and up cards im missing.
At least theres new cards coming, my 5 year old is going to be super excited about that!
@Pillowpants
Yeah that part really kills investing much into battling, makes it too luck based with how much the meta is built around decks like Mewtwo EX and Pikachu EX where you’ll always know incredibly early if you’ll win or lose.
Sinnoh remakes confirmed!
Finally an update that is no longer full of Gen 1 Pokemon!
I feel like I’m the only person left who has never played a Pokémon game
Saved all my hourglasses for this.
I still rate this game as okay, the amount of luck required.
If it wasn't for bad luck, I would have any luck at all...
@SalvorHardin While it is luck-based, I think it's actually LESS luck based than the mainline TCG. I think you have a much better chance of seeing most of the cards in your deck in this version and there is no risk of important cards being prized from the start
Still better remakes than bdsp
Finally a release date. I already got all the normal cards in mythical island and I’ve been using my daily packs on genetic apex (which I haven’t got all the cards yet) and me and my sister have been saving up hourglasses to get a bunch of cards in the new expansion (heck I saved up enough hourglasses to open 20 packs) and the fact that the new expansion seems to be based on sinnoh will probably give my sister hope that they will add in the piplup line (my sister’s favorite Pokémon is piplup).
I started this game last week and I'm pleasantly surprised how much there is to do on a new account. I'm up to 400 total cards and several fun decks without spending a cent, with hourglasses saved for this expansion.
Only complaint is it devours my phone's battery.
About time. I’m getting tired of pulling nothing new day after day lol. Those last few cards from the first wave will forever elude me, it seems.
Well this was unexpected. Thought they would go up in order with the generations.
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