Pokémon TCG Pocket

Pokemon TCG Pocket has grown into 3,879 cards spread across 23 sets and 26 openable packs, with 50 meta decks tracked here. From here you can open the full card database sorted by set, check the pull rates on a specific pack before you spend it, price a deck in Pack Points instead of guessing, or build a 20-card list in the deck builder and see what it costs without touching the real app. Each set lands on a relative schedule: about a month between the small sub-sets (the ones with an "a" or "b" suffix, like A1a or B2b) and two to three months between the main numbered sets. That cadence is why the set timeline on this page is sorted newest first — the set you care about most is usually the one that just launched or the one confirmed next. That count of 26 packs is the number you can actually open. The raw pack data holds 53 rows, but some of them are promo cards handed out through events and missions: they have no pack to buy, no pull-rate table, and they never appear in the odds calculator. Counting them as openable packs would simply be inflating the number.

A legal deck is exactly 20 cards, with at most two copies of any card sharing the same name, and it cannot contain Energy cards at all — energy is generated automatically each turn through the Energy Zone instead of being drawn from the deck. That single rule is why deck lists here show 20 slots and nothing labeled "Energy." A game ends one of two ways: reach 3 points first, or your opponent runs out of cards to draw. Points come from knocking out the opponent's Pokémon — a regular Pokémon is worth 1 point, but a Pokémon ex is worth 2, since ex cards trade higher HP and stronger attacks for handing over double the points when they go down. That 2-point swing is the reason ex Pokémon dominate the meta decks tracked here, and it's the first thing worth checking when a deck list looks unfamiliar.

Opening a pack always gives 5 Pack Points regardless of what you pull, and those points are tracked separately per pack — Charizard-pack points don't carry over to Mewtwo-pack points even inside the same set. Once you've saved enough, you can exchange points directly for a specific card instead of pulling for it: a 1-diamond card costs 35 points, 2-diamond costs 70, 3-diamond costs 150, 4-diamond costs 500, a 1-star card costs 400, 2-star costs 1,250, a Shiny costs 1,000, a Shiny Super Rare costs 1,350, 3-star costs 1,500, and a Crown Rare costs 2,500. This is the guaranteed route — slow, but it never depends on a pull. Trading is the other route, and it runs on a separate currency called Shinedust rather than Pack Points. A 3-diamond card costs 1,200 Shinedust to trade for, a 4-diamond card costs 5,000, a 1-star Art Rare costs 4,000, a 2-star Super Rare or Special Art Rare costs 25,000, a Shiny costs 10,000, and a Shiny Super Rare costs 30,000. Immersive Rare and Crown Rare cards cannot be traded at all under any circumstance, so for those two rarities Pack Points or pulling are the only paths.

Wonder Pick shows 5 face-down cards from a friend's or stranger's pack opening, and every slot carries the exact same 1-in-5 chance — 20% each, flat, with no hidden weighting toward a particular position and nothing to read into which slot looks "due." The rarity of what's behind each card is already fixed the moment the pack was opened; Wonder Pick just decides which of the 5 outcomes you personally get to grab. That flat odds structure is also why Wonder Pick can't be gamed by timing or slot choice the way some players assume — the only lever that actually matters is how many packs get opened for Wonder Pick to draw from in the first place.

Pokémon TCG Pocket is a free-to-download mobile app for iOS and Android, published by The Pokémon Company and built by Creatures Inc. and DeNA. It launched worldwide on October 30, 2024, turning pack-opening and deck-building from the physical Pokémon Trading Card Game into something playable from a phone — open packs, trade duplicates with friends, and battle solo or against another player. None of that needs real money: the free install already covers everything this hub links to, from the card database to the deck builder. Packs bought with cash, cosmetics and the Premium Pass sit on top as optional extras, not a separate paid version of the app.

When does the next Pokémon TCG Pocket set come out?

Sets release on a fairly consistent rhythm: about a month between the smaller side-sets and two to three months between the larger numbered sets. The sets list on this site is sorted newest-first and pulls every release date straight from the set data, so the latest confirmed release is always at the top instead of a date typed into an article that quietly goes stale.

Where do I find the current tier list?

The tier list and meta deck rankings are linked directly from this hub and update whenever a new set shifts the meta — you don't need to dig through card pages one by one to find what's currently strong; the deck rankings pull straight from the 50 tracked meta decks.

Is there a page for active codes and gift redemptions?

Yes, active codes are listed on their own dedicated page linked from this hub, separate from the card database and tools, so checking for a redeemable code doesn't require searching through set or deck content.