Late last year, The Pokémon Company announced it would finally be adding an anticipated feature to the mobile app Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket in January 2025.
It's now been reconfirmed the trading feature will arrive "this month" - with the team also detailing what exactly you can expect from this new feature, which will be gradually rolled out.
"Today, we wanted to provide more details on the new trade feature coming your way this month. Here are a few highlights you can look forward to!"
- Trades can be done between friends
- Trades can be done with cards of the same rarity
- At the time of the trade feature's launch, certain cards from the Genetic Apex and Mythical Island booster packs will be able to be traded. We are planning to continue to expand the selection of booster packs that you can trade from.
- Cards with a rarity of ◇1-◇4 and ☆1 can be traded
- Items must be consumed in order to trade.
"We will continue to monitor player feedback and assess future updates to the trade feature while keeping in mind how to balance both the ease and enjoyability of collecting."
Apart from trading, it's also been confirmed the "next booster packs" will be added this month, with more details to share soon about the new Pokémon encounters fans can look forward to.
Will you be making use of this trading feature? Let us know.
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“ Items must be consumed in order to trade.”
Of course, they picked the timing of this exactly to milk people who are on the cusp of completing Apex.
Darn, I was really hoping to trade my few 2* duplicates for something new. There are only a handful of Ex or 1* cards I don't already have.
Finally, trading!
It’s kinda ridiculous, I’ve gotten multiple cards of the the highest rarities, but I’m missing several 4 diamond rares. As in, common-ish cards. It’s kinda driving me mad
Yeah, these are exactly the kind of limitations I expected but oh well, better than nothing as I'll finally be able to trade some of my cards with my friends (including the cards of my first God Pack as all but one were duplicates - funnily enough including not one, but two Slowpoke full art)!
@SalvorHardin Truthfully I'm just assuming they're going to use Shinedust as the in-game resource to use for trades, and the amount will increase for the more rare trades. I've been saving up just in case, assuming it will operate the same as Go where they use Stardust for trades lol
I just need Omaster and Kabutops to complete the set!!
Funny how its the two fossil pokemon...
@Anachronism I'm guessing that they will add some sort of updated rule to this later on, once we get far enough removed from an older expansion they'll become more lenient on what will be allowed to be traded!
Is it me or is 2 stars and crowns the hardest cards to get in the game? I've got 3 stars and 1 stars.....I think they should let you use your duplicates in a type of machine the more you trade the rarer you card will be so we can possibly get a 2 star card
Realised I haven't opened the app in a few days thanks to the Switch 2 reveal
So I'll never finish my collection. This is pointless and I have now lost interest in the app. All I wanted to do was have all the cards, I don't enjoy battling strangers.
@ItsATM I hope so, but I'm not holding my breath.These rules serve the dual purpose of making it harder for people to sell their cards and making sure people can't easily complete their collections without spending money while still trying to appease the people who would complain about a trading card game not having trading. As long as they don't get a ton of backlash, they won't have much reason to loosen the restrictions.
Gotta jump back in then and try it out; there are more than a few specific cards I wanted but never had the luck to receive at random in the packs.
I started playing this with my cousin last week. Looking forward to being able to trade, and open new booster packs.
Trade only between friends…. Lame i got no friends
@Abrammchi play some random vs matches and in your profile pick the display comment “I’m looking to make friends”. I set this on my profile at the beginning cause I thought it just sounded silly, but everyone was sending me friend requests that I didn’t want so I changed it. People will add you
I think I only have 4 of the 4 Diamond cards left to obtain (Venusaur EX, Marowak EX, Blastoise EX, & Zapdos EX), so at least I'll be able to complete the set as I have lots of duplicates of the EX cards I do have I can use for trading.
Similar story for the 1 Star cards, though I think there's a bit more I don't have (maybe 5 or 6). Still have enough duplicates to trade.
Kind of a bummer you can't trade the 2 or 3 Star cards (or the Crowns), but they're all just alt arts of less rare cards so they don't give you an advantage in the actual game (same for 1 Stars though), so I can live with it. They're rare enough that I don't have enough duplicates to trade with anyways.
@eltomo Interesting, I'm only missing Omastar and Kabuto from the first generation. I only have Kabutops because of a wonder pick. I also have one single Omanyte, and have no Dome Fossils at all. I have no idea what's up with these fossil Pokémon.
If you thought they were going to have an unrestricted trading system that would allow people to abuse multiple free-to-play accounts, you were nuts!
@Krisi I just got Omaster from a wonder pick!!
After giving it a good go, I decided to remove the app from my phone as I can't buy anything in my region and I feel like this game is just too watered down... 20 card decks means you can't really build anything interesting and overall the game just feels very repetitive. Glad that I could still give it a try, but I wonder what the life expectancy of this game is going to be. The restrictions on trading don't really seem fair and necessary either. And the fact that it costs resources to trade is a bit of a dealbreaker for me, too.
@eltomo Woo! Congrats!
Still waiting for mine, though...
@Krisi I finally got Kabutops yesterday!!
Got that Mew Reward card 😁
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