When will ‘Pokémon TCG Pocket’ get trading?
One feature curiously absent in Pokémon TCG Pocket at launch is trading. While you can use the Wonder Pick feature to pull a card from a pack opened by a friend, you aren’t able to properly trade duplicates or unique cards, yet.
So, when will trading actually come to Pokémon TCG Pocket? Here is what we know from The Pokemon Company directly and how it could work based off some of the other systems in the game right now.
Trading will arrive in January 2025 in Pokémon TCG Pocket. This was confirmed by the official Pokémon TCG Pocket X account in mid-November.
It could be that The Pokemon Company just wanted to give everyone some time to build out there collections before they start passing cards between each other. Trading initially will only let you transfer certain cards between players, not everything. However, in the official update on X mentioned above, The Pokemon Company does say this selection of cards will expand over time.
When it comes to trading, there will almost certainly be restrictions, such as forcing you to only trade cards of the same rarity, or perhaps even the same type and evolution stage. We do hope there isn’t a cost to this, and you can simply trade cards you are happy with without paying real world currency or using your limited in-game resources you get from levelling up. Although Shinedust has been handed out quite a bit since launch, which could mean that currency will be used for trading.
Additionally, it could mean that the feature is somewhat complex compared to the rest of the game. After all, the target audience for Pokémon TCG Pocket isn’t the same as those playing the game competitively. Either way, trading is on its way, as you can see from the game’s social menu.
As more expansion sets get added, it will be interesting to see if you can trade cards between sets and across expansions, provided they meet the requirements. But we will need to wait for The Pokemon Company to properly detail how trading will work before we know.
For even more on the game, check out how you can reroll early in your collecting career. You can also find out more about the rarest cards in the game you can get from these packs.
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