Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket Launches This October, Pre-Registration Now Live

Not available in my country or region. Sad Pikachu face.

So very excited for when this finally releases. The entire concept of it looks fantastic, I just hope they add in some simplified battles against other players across the world, similar to how Duel Links did for mainline Yugioh.

Hoping this still releases before end of year!

So is this the announcement? Well, it is what it is…

So what's happening with TCG Live? As I have redeemed so many codes into that game and play a few matches weekly. Also can we use the card codes in this new game or is the only way to get cards by opening the two packs per day.

How does one preregister? I can’t find the actual link anywhere for iOS.

@UltimateOtaku91 the cards in this game are entirely separate from the standard format of the TCG and thus TCG Live. TCG Live will continue as a separate app, and the codes will still work as far as I know.

@Nintendoid720 Same, I’m in the US and I can’t find it, listing must not be up yet I guess. Annoying cause when you search all you get is pages of news stories saying it’s available to preregister.

Bandai is very inept. They had a chance to do this before Pokemon with the Digimon TCG, which has been quite popular in general, yet they never did. They even had a good app to show the basics, they just needed to improve on it.

Shame that, but I guess this means Pokémon is having its very own duel links at the very least

I am ready!

I don't get why a lot of these apps aren't ported to the Switch. Anyway, I'm quite looking forward to this as TCG Live is an utterly joyless grind, and anything that is at least somewhat closer to the excellent GBC games looks good to me.

I'm not sure if they had announced precisely how many cards will be included in each booster. If they're ten cards each just like the official ones, then that's 7,300 cards per year, and I quite like the sound of that.

.....Still confused as to why they haven't put a TCG on the freakin' Switch. (gameboy games don't count, lol)

Lol…. To everyone who can’t find the app:

I searched for it by Pokemon Trading Card and Pokemon TCG and I never got the one I was looking for.

However, by mistake I wrote Pokemon Trading Carz and found it.

Hope it helps

Since I don't play games on my mobile for a good reason, I won't be getting this. I don't understand why they don't release this on Switch, though... Seems like a missed opportunity.

Two free booster packs every day is surprisingly generous if they're full 10-card packs.

Looks great, hopefully this will eventually replace the abysmal PTCG Live game as the place to play standard games. I know the game will be TCG-lite in terms of gameplay but I hope they will change that eventually

@Dogorilla Just watched a couple of videos and all the boosters there were 5 card packs.

Of course that is a demo version, so the full game could be 10 card packs, but as 20 cards feels generous, I think 5 card packs will be standard.

Looks interesting and could reignite that mobile CCG interest I have since I quit Hearthstone.

My question is what happens when you get a ton of duplicate cards from booster packs? Do they get repurposed into some kind currency or are they just wasted cardboard just like in real life?

@Kiz3000 Honestly that's still not bad considering a physical booster pack costs £4 and this is the digital equivalent of that for free every day.

@Blue_Dread It's been a while since I played the TCG but IIRC most cards can be used multiple times in one deck, so it's not necessarily a waste to have duplicates.

says its not compatible with my phone, guess I'm out for the count till my phone needs replacing