Space-Time Smackdown expansion & trading coming to Pokémon TCG Pocket

The hit mobile title Pokémon TCG Pocket will be getting a new full expansion called Space-Time Smackdown on January 29, as well as a new trading feature. Watch the trailer for the new expansion below.

Space-Time Smackdown expansion details

Focusing on Pokémon from the Sinnoh region, the Pocket expansion Space-Time Smackdown will feature two new booster packs for players to pull cards from. Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Lucario, Dialga ex and Palkia ex cards have been previewed and can be seen above.

There will also be new binder and display board covers featuring Dialga, Palkia and Darkrai.

Trading mechanics for Pokémon TCG Pocket

It’s the Pokémon Trading Card Game, so it only makes sense to be able to trade cards and Pocket players will finally get to swap cards with others soon! Cards with a rarity of ♦1-4 can be traded freely for each other, while cards of a rarity of ★1 can only be traded for another card of the same rarity. The feature will initially be limited to cards from the Genetic Apex and Mythical Island expansions but will be expanded in the future.

The trading feature will introduce two new items, Trade Tokens and Trade Hourglasses. It seems like Trade Tokens may regenerate after a certain amount of times and the hourglasses can be used to speed that up, but we will see when the feature becomes available.


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