Developed by DeNA, Creatures Inc., and The Pokémon Company and released on Oct. 30, TCG Pocket is a mobile game where players open card packs to assemble a collection of digital Pokémon cards. Each day,

Pokémon TCG Pocket seems redundant next to 2023's Pokémon TCG Live. Both games offer collecting and battling mechanics. I spent a month with this new Pokémon game and can confirm it captures that classic feeling of collecting and playing games with Pokémon cards with your friends.

Pokemon TCG Pocket has free cards available, appealing to fans with 30M downloads in nine days. Battle mode with supporter cards enhances gameplay, targeting specific Pokemon and types. Each supporter card offers unique benefits,

Sabrina is a Supporter Trainer card whose standard version is two diamond rarity. When played, Sabrina allows you to force your opponent to switch out their Active Pokémon for another Pokémon on their bench of their choosing. It’s a pretty simple action, but this flexible card has become a staple I tinker around with various decks.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket adapts the beloved card game into a speedier experience more fit for mobile, but players can't get their heads around one rule change regarding going first and are calling on developer Creatures Inc.

As the Pokemon TCG Pocket meta begins to take shape, players agree that this card needs immediate adjustments to make it less broken.

Bent packs in Pokemon TCG Pocket - i.e., those rare card packs that have a slight crease or curve in the corner of the foil at the top of the pack - do not appear to give better rewards or rarer cards than normal packs, despite some people reading them as a being "heavier".

We’ve already very carefully been over the grimly insidious nature of Pokémon TCG Pocket’s unpleasant free-to-play model, but an aspect of this peculiar and enormously successful mobile spin-off from the long-established card game is just how many in-game currencies it has you juggle.

Pokémon TCG Pocket is packed with over 200 cards to collect and use in battle. Not every card is a powerful heavy hitter, but most of them have some kind of utility, with almost every card in the game able to positively contribute to some of the best decks in TCG Pocket.

Pokemon TCG Pocket's rarest cards right now are special gold variants of already rare cards, meaning that those who get them won't necessarily be getting new abilities in battle: