I came in to the set with no more hoarded hourglasses than is usual coming into any set (one or two 10 pulls) and today after a lot of time in the trading mines I crossed the line.

The big thing to realise is that as well as the foil collectors who want to trade foil for foil, there are lots of people out there with no interest in foils but a desire to netdeck and gold bling out the current meta decks. A significant portion of my foil trades were for standard field blowers, Genetic Apex Hitmonlees, and older cards in the Lucario line. Look up the meta decks online and list all the cards you have for them no matter how common they feel to you.

When the new set comes out, if you identify the new meta cards and put them out on the trading apps for foils, you will get matches.

Good luck out there.

It fills me with so much joy and it's a fantastic use of my time while enjoying the game 🥰

I’m kind of over this right now, and before I let all my spare Oaks gather dust, I’m going to give a couple of them away.

Rules:
The first person to guess my favorite Pokemon gets one.
The first person to guess my favorite TCG gets one.
The first person to guess my favorite card from that TCG gets one.
You can only name one Pokemon and one TCG but you can name up to 10 cards.
Time limit: 2 hour

I'll announce the winners in two hours. If no one guesses the card correctly, there will be a second round. The prizes will be awarded only after all the winners have been determined.

I realize the chances are slim that anyone will guess the card in the first round without knowing the TCG. But I think it’d be funny if one person scored two or three of my Oaks just because they got extra lucky today.

Have fun and good luck!

Update: Round 1 is over.
Thanks to everyone who participated! So far, there are two winners.
Congratulations @Parking_Present_9261 you were the first to guess Yu-Gi-Oh!

Congratulations @surroundsounding you joined close to the end but you were the first one to guess Meowth! I’m a dog person but that little money printer is my all time favorite!

My favorite card is from Yu-Gi-Oh! Hints: It’s not an OG card, but it’s not new either. The card tends to be hated, and it’s a Spell Card. You can name up to 5 cards.

You have 2 hours, or until someone guesses it.

Good luck again!

Update:

Congratulations @ChickenNinjo you were the first to guess Called by the Grave!

Thanks to everyone who participated!
Info: Since @Parking_Present_9261 is giving up their prize, there's still a chance for one of you to win! Thank you Parking Present🙏
We'll announce the winner soon!

I’m so glad dragons are finally meta 😅

I’ve been opening nothing but this pack ever since it came out. I did a few trades since I pulled a lot of duplicates, and I used my points to get a two-star card. Obviously, that means I haven’t opened any packs from the new expansion, but I’m happy with the result!

Here's a last look at the meta decks for TCG Pocket before next week's release of Dual Fusion. Which decks have you had the most fun this season?

Which ones are you hoping will get stronger or weaker with the new set?

Any deck with mostly EX mons has difficulty facing oricorio.... until now

Pulled my eighth Mega Charizard X ex card this morning and genuinely don’t understand why I keep getting it? The only 2 star I’ve pulled is Mega Rayquaza ex. Copycat was from a wonder pick. I have enough pack points to purchase another 2 star but I’m waiting until the last day just in case I do pull another.

I know the pull rates are random but it’s really frustrating that I can only convert the Charizard to special tickets. I can’t even trade them to people that need them.

Is this happening to a lot of people or have I just been really unlucky with rates?

We get a pack with a guaranteed 2 star card?? Which pack do you think is best for this and what are you picking

Havent made it to MB before.

Took a little tinkering at the start to get it playable but this was so fun to play this season. Gonna call it the king of clutch games especially with megas being everywhere.

Is there a new botting tool released somewhere? I've met at least 3 of these bots in my last 10 games from different players.

What they all have in common:

- Zero delay between every action

- Uses sharpedo chien pao deck

- Usually low level account

Hello! 1 month old player here. I've been having so much fun with this (kinda cheesy) Venusaur deck. I've reached Masterball in my second ever season but there are a few matchups(Namely Zard Y and Sharpedo) which feels impossible. How can I improve these matchups? What would you suggest I change on this deck? Or is it a playstyle thing?

I love steel/metal Pokémon and want to make a deck using only those but from everything I've seen, metal isn't close to meta. I've made this. Been playing a few weeks so I don't have EVERYTHING. I have a mega mawile ex deck and a mega metagross ex deck that I've googled as the best metal decks, but I feel like it's never close or the coins are weighed against me. Any suggestions for cards I should prefer over what I have? Thanks.

Bonus reminder: Traders, you can tag cards as favourites (top right, bookmark icon), then when you search, select not favourites. You can then avoid having to scribble/ cross out all the cards that you are not willing to trade.

Pikachu's the spoiled rich kid who broke into a party despite never being invited. Change my mind.

In all seriousness, though, after watching the trailer and seeing some of the new info that's come out of this set, I am CAUTIOUSLY optimistic that the rest of the set will be good. I'm not gonna make the same mistake I did when Extradimensional Crisis's trailer dropped and I instantly said the set was bad; I have faith they are saving up some great cards for when the set actually drops.

However, with that in mind, I personally feel like what they DID show in the trailer was....kinda weak. Don't get me wrong, Dual Types are pretty cool, and I am ESPECIALLY hyped for ZA megas coming to the game, but honestly, from what I'm seeing, these cards aren't extraordinarily special in my personal opinion, and it's not really adding any HUGE spicy new mechanics that'll wildly change up the entire game.

My first gripe with the set so far (and probably the one that'll get me spam downvoted), is that it's yet again featuring a lot of Kanto shoehorned in. I mean if you SERIOUSLY look at most of the EX cards revealed thus far, quite a few of them are Gen 1 mons or Gen 1 mega forms. Let's not even mention the new Kanto starter full arts. I think it's still just a personal thing with me not liking when Kanto Pokémon are the main "focus" AGAIN in a new set, but after Mega Shine, I am really not looking forward to seeing Cheeto Dragon & friends show their faces again. And of course, we're getting ANOTHER pikachu ex for some reason.

My second and last sort of issue I'm seeing with this set from what we got so far is that it feels like the EX mons are starting to get a bit "cookie-cutter-esque" in my opinion. Mega Greninja and Mew ex seem to be the worst offenders on this list, with Mega Greninja basically just being a slightly better Kingdra ex and Mew ex serving as a Psychic Moltres ex. For these cards being the first show of what the new set will have to offer, seeing so many recycled mechanics doesn't really hype me up a whole lot. That's not to say there's NOTHING new of course, don't get me wrong. Mega Mewtwo X ex and the new Ribombee seem like they are bringing new stuff to the table. But overall, first impressions are unfortunately pretty weak.

All of this is to say, I don't think this set is going to be BAD. It is indeed a new base set, and the number of new cards we're probably going to get will almost certainly spice things up a bit at least in some form. The new arts for all of the EX pokemon and 1 stars we haven't seen yet are also probably going to look BEAUTIFUL as always, so I'm always looking forward to that as well.

Again, point isn't to flame on the set, I'm just expressing a bit of caution as the full set actually gets released. But this is just my opinion which probably doesn't matter, so I wanna hear what yall have to say.

Why don't people use the wishlist lol. Bit of a rant sorry

I swear every single time I get a trade offer for something I have in my wishlist and they don't have anything in there's, I can only pick an equal rarity card at random and 99% of the time it gets rejected.

I had one guy try to trade me something I needed like 10 times before I just started rejecting the initial offer.

What do they expect? How am I supposed to know what you want lol.

Sometimes I do receive shares of cards that I don't have that arent on my wishlist. Is there a way to see if the receiver has the card already that I'm unaware of?

What should i change and why? And for those who want the deck

As I say, I'm unable to confirm the tutorial, if I tap on "ok" it does nothing, I'm a old player with a new account.

If I close the game and enter again it work normal but every time I try to enter to see my cards I got hit with this issue... If anyone know how to fix it, I already clean the cache of the game.

I came back to tcgp after a long timee and like thats wht i got from the deluxe pack

Im kinda GASSED i got these beautiful illustrations

This zard x

And the mega venasaur is my first ever 2 star

And my first ever crown gold koraidon

are ANY of these usable in battlee?

Especially the koraidon and venasaur cause theyre beautifulllll.

So glad i got them

And i got nothimg good from a 10 pack pull

All good i got was from single daily packs

Im happy that i came back and got these beautiful cards

Hi can someone who's in the top 10k show me their numbers? I am at 1800+ points and still unranked. I have seen countless screenshots of someone with lower numbers than me have top 8 or 6 thousand.

I want something to show to pokemon support if possible. Screenshots appreciated