Pokemon TCG Pocket (PTCGP)

Card Rarity Guide

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Just like the physical card game, Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket (PTCG Pocket) has its own rarity system that determines how often you can get certain cards. Keep reading to see what the Card Rarity system is, drop rates for each rarity, other types of rare cards, and what you can do to guarantee that cards you want.

Pokemon TCG Pocket Card Rarity List

All Cards by Rarity

List of Cards by Rarity
Pokemon TCG Pocket - One-Diamond 1◇ Pokemon TCG Pocket - Two-Diamond 2◇ Pokemon TCG Pocket - Three-Diamond 3◇ Pokemon TCG Pocket - Four-Diamond 4◇
Pokemon TCG Pocket - One-Star 1☆ Pokemon TCG Pocket - Two-Star 2☆ Pokemon TCG Pocket - Three-Star 3☆ Pokemon TCG Pocket - Four-Star Crown

The main cards in Pokemon TCG Pocket have their own rarities, and how easy or hard it is to get them depends on their rarity, and ultimately, your luck.

Do note that promo cards have no rarities, as they cannot be obtained from packs and are obtained in other ways.

List of All Cards

In-Game Card Rarity vs Physical TCG Rarity Comparison

In-Game Rarity Equivalent Rarity in Physical TCG
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Common
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Uncommon
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Rare
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Double Rare and Ultra Rare
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Illustration Rare
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Special Illustration Rare
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(Immersive Cards)
N/A
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(Crown Rare)
Hyper Rare

Cards have their own rarities and usually have an equivalent rarity in the physical TCG. The exception to this is the 3 Star Cards due to their immersive views that you can view when interacted with.

Crown Rares are the rarest type of card available and will feature golden full art cards. These cards use a golden crown icon to display their rarities.

High Value (Rarest) Cards

Card Description
Mew.pngMew (A1 283)
Reward Exclusive Cards

Some cards are only available by completing certain Missions and Themed Collections. For example, Mew (A1 283) can only be obtained by obtaining a card for all 150 Kanto Pokemon.
Pokemon TCG Pocket - Pikachu FA.pngPikachu (P-A 009)
Premium Pass Exclusive Cards

It was officially announced that the Premium Pass will have limited prints of cards that are available in the current Booster Pack. The P-A 009 Pikachu is the Full Art version of the A1 094 Pikachu.
Venusaur Promo.png Venusaur (P-A 018)
Unavailable Cards

Some cards are available to be viewed in-game but currently have no method of obtaining them.
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Crown Rarity Cards

Crown cards are the rarest cards that you can pull in booster packs in-game. These are usually gold in color akin to the Hyper Rare cards in the physical TCG.

Best and Rarest Pull Rates for Each Pack

What Are Drop Rates for Each Pack

Booster Pack Drop Rates

In-Game Rarity Drop Rate for Cards 1~5
Standard Booster Pack 99.95%
God Pack 0.05%

When pulling there is a super slim chance of getting a special Rare Pack, colloquially known as a god pack. These packs will always give cards no lower than 1★ Rarity.

Drop Rates for Standard Booster Packs

In-Game Rarity Drop Rate
Cards 1~3 Card 4 Card 5
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100% 0% 0%
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0% 90% 60%
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0% 5% 20%
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0% 1.666% 6.664%
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0% 2.572% 10.288%
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0% 0.5% 2%
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(Immersive Cards)
0% 0.222% 0.888%
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(Crown Rare)
0% 0.04% 0.16%

As shown, the first three cards you will get will always be 1◆ Cards, the fourth having a 90% chance being 2◆, and the last card will never be lower than a 2◆.
How Booster Packs Work in Pokemon TCG Pocket

Drop Rates for God Packs

In-Game Rarity Drop Rate for Cards 1~5
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40%
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50%
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(Immersive Cards)
5%
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(Crown Rare)
5%

In god packs, each rarity has their own drop rate, but each individual card has a 5% chance to appear as one of the five cards in your pull.

With the given rates for god packs, it is possible to get all Crown Rare Cards, but highly improbable.

God Pack Pull Rates (Rare Packs)

How to Guarantee Certain Cards

Use Your Pack Points

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If you don't get your Chase Card in the current set, you can use your Pack Points you obtain from opening packs to purchase said card in the shop.

Keep in mind that the rarer the card, the more points you need to spend to get the specific card. For example, it will take an F2P player 125 days of saving Spark Points to get a single Crown Rare Card.

Pack Points Explained: How to Craft Rare Cards

Try Your Luck in Wonder Pick Instead

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If you don't get your Chase Card but you see it in Wonder Pick, try your luck there. Granted, you don't guarantee the card itself, but 1/5 is way better odds than what you can get from the booster packs.

Keep in mind that you can't obtain three star or crown rares using Wonder Pick!

Wonder Pick Feature Explained

Is There A Way to Identify Rare Packs?

Bent Corner Method

Bent Corner Regular Corner
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It is speculated that you can spot which booster pack has a rare card based on the crease on the upper right corner of the pack, but it is also likely that the cards you pull are fixed since you could skip the pack opening sequence.

While our findings are still inconclusive, our attempts indicate a pattern toward higher rarity cards being found in the bent packs. However, further testing is still needed to make any solid conclusions.

Bent Corner Packs: Is There a Way to Identify Rare Packs?

Pokemon TCG Pocket Related Guides

Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Gameplay Guides

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Card and Pull Rate Guides

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Premium Pass Guides

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Comment

4 Anonymous16 days

offering rates states "It's possible for the order of the cards in the results to differ from the order that the cards were actually selected in." IE step one you select a pack it's determined then and there if it's rare or regular carousel. And the cards within, then you select from the carousel, the reveal order may be different.

3 Suolis29 days

I think its time to update the drop rates because i got a crown as third, in pic last two packs opened from down up. if you count from down up (most recent) i got the charizard as third from the first pack today.

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