Deck Cost Planner
Add the cards you still need, say how many copies you already have, and see the exact Pack Point cost.
Search for each card your deck needs, set how many copies you already own and how many you want (up to 2, the deck limit), and this tool totals the Pack Points required — plus how many packs' worth of points that is.
Build your missing-cards list
Add every card your deck is missing, then adjust how many copies you have and want for each.
How this is calculated
Each rarity has a fixed official Pack Point price. For every card, missing copies = what you want minus what you have; we multiply that by its rarity's price and add it all up, grouped below by rarity.
Honesty check: this is the guaranteed Pack Point Shop cost, not the cost of pulling these cards from packs — opening packs could get you there for free, or never. Use the Pack Odds tool to see the luck-based route for any single card.
How the Pokémon TCG Pocket deck cost calculator works
This Pokémon TCG Pocket deck cost calculator takes the 20 cards from your target deck and works out how many packs you need to open, using the real per-slot odds of the exact pack each card lives in. Packs are not one flat probability roll: slots 1 through 3 in a Regular Pack always hand out a Common, and only slots 4 and 5 can produce anything rarer. Averaging the odds across all 5 slots instead of reading them slot by slot is the single biggest reason cost estimates end up wrong, so this tool always reads the per-slot table for the specific pack your card belongs to.
There is also a second, much rarer pack type behind every set. A Rare Pack only appears 0.05 percent of the time you open a pack, but when it does, every one of its 5 slots is guaranteed to be Art Rare, Super Rare, Immersive, or Ultra Rare, which is why community players call hitting one a god pack.
Pack Point as your guaranteed floor
Every pack you open earns 5 Pack Points, and those points are tracked separately for each individual pack rather than shared across your whole collection. That separation matters: opening the wrong pack for a few days does not help you save up points toward a card that lives in a different pack, so the calculator always checks which pack your target card actually belongs to before counting points.
Pack Points can be spent to redeem a specific card once you have enough saved: 35 points for a 1-diamond card, 70 for 2-diamond, 150 for 3-diamond, and 500 for a 4-diamond card. On the star side it is 400 for 1-star, 1250 for 2-star, 1500 for 3-star, and 2500 for a Crown Rare. Since 5 points come from every pack, 500 points for a 4-diamond card means at most 100 packs of that specific pack type is a hard ceiling, no matter how unlucky the pulls are.
Turning packs into days
A pack count alone does not answer the question players actually ask, which is how long it will take. Free daily packs are commonly limited to two per day, and the calculator uses that ceiling to translate a raw pack number into a day count, so a deck that needs 40 packs of one specific pack type reads as roughly 20 days of free openings rather than an abstract number.
That day estimate assumes you are not spending anything beyond the free daily packs. Anything that lets you open packs faster will shorten the timeline, but the baseline figure is built on the free allowance alone so it never overstates how fast a fully free-to-play account can move.
Trading with Shinedust instead of pulling more packs
When a target card is proving expensive to pull, trading is often the faster route. Shinedust costs to trade for a card scale with rarity: 1200 for a 3-diamond card, 5000 for a 4-diamond card, 4000 for a 1-star Art Rare, and 25000 for a 2-star Super or Special Art Rare. Shiny cards cost 10000 and a Shiny Super Rare costs 30000.
Not everything is tradeable, though. Immersive Rare and Crown Rare cards cannot be traded at all, so for those two rarities pulling or redeeming with Pack Points are the only paths, and the calculator will flag that instead of suggesting a trade that is not possible.
Frequently asked questions
Does deck cost mean real money?
No. Pokémon TCG Pocket is free to play, so deck cost here is measured in packs opened and days waited, not currency. The calculator converts your target deck into that pack and day count so you know what committing to it actually looks like.
How many packs guarantee I get a specific rare card?
Pack Points make it a hard number rather than a hope. At 5 points per pack and 500 points needed for a 4-diamond card, 100 packs of that pack type is the absolute ceiling, guaranteed, even if every pull before that misses.
Why does opening the wrong pack cost me progress?
Because Pack Points are tracked separately per pack rather than shared. Points saved from one pack cannot be spent on a card that lives in a different pack, so picking the wrong pack to farm effectively resets your progress toward the card you actually wanted.