Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket has acquired its first main replace alongside the discharge of the Mythical Island Themed Booster, which provides 86 new playing cards to the sport alongside new missions and rewards.
Mythical Island arrived in the present day, December 17, and as a Themed Booster is a smaller set in comparison with the debut Genetic Apex, which incorporates 286 playing cards. Developer Creatures Inc. has nonetheless added myriad new missions and solo battles for gamers to work together with although, which considerably recreates that opening day feeling of the digital buying and selling card sport.
There are loads of particular playing cards added with Mythical Island too, which regardless of including 86 playing cards whole formally caps out at 68 playing cards. This means there are 18 of the “secrete” alternate artwork playing cards, together with one immersive and one crown card.
On the mission entrance, Mythical Island Dex Missions have been added which, identical to Genetic Apex, reward gamers with particular store tickets for amassing 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, and 60 distinctive Mythical Island playing cards. These can be utilized to redeem a Mew icon.
Deck Missions are added too, rewarding gamers with Rental Decks for amassing a few of the main new playing cards out there in Mythical Island together with Celebi ex, Gyarados ex, Mew ex, Aerodactyl ex, and Pidgeot ex.
Finally, Themed Collections are additionally up to date for Mythical Island. A wide range of missions right here reward totally different objects for amassing, properly, themed collections of playing cards, such because the Flower Travelers mission tasking gamers with amassing the three flower Pokémon within the Florges evolution line.
Solo Battles on the Step-Up and Expert tiers have additionally been up to date with new challenges. Eight new Step-Up Battles have been added for Mythical Island decks, with gamers in a position to tackle the second most difficult variations of decks reminiscent of Celebi ex and Mew ex to earn rewards reminiscent of pack hourglasses.
Another eight decks are added on the Expert Battle tier, which every reward seven Pack Hourglasses upon completion. The Step-Up Battles supply 5, so a complete of 96 Pack Hourglasses can be found in solo battles alone, letting gamers open eight booster packs for gratis. This comes on high of 12 Pack Hourglasses that Creatures Inc. supplied as free reward to all gamers.
As for Wonder Picks, these now seem to solely serve Mythical Island packs and now not Genetic Apex, although it is doable the brand new set is simply dominating the random choice for the reason that majority of gamers are presumably opening it on launch day.
Other modifications to the sport will emerge over the approaching days, because the 86 new playing cards are slotted into the meta and shake up the participant versus participant scene. A brand new Vaporeon card is already threatening to make Misty much more highly effective, whereas Aerodactyl ex might lead Pokémon TCG Pocket’s first management deck by stopping gamers evolving their Active Pokémon.
Pokémon TCG Pocket arrived October 30 and is an authorized hit for Creatures Inc. and The Pokémon Company, having earned an estimated $200 million in its first month throughout greater than 60 million downloads.
This enormous sum of money comes as Pokémon TCG Pocket follows the usual cellular and free to play sport mannequin, flooding gamers with rewards within the first few days earlier than quickly drying up, with spending actual world cash the one actual option to re-experience that early thrill outdoors of the occasional set drop like this.
Completing Genetic Apex, the primary set of playing cards which totals 226 formally but additionally incorporates 60 uncommon alternate artwork playing cards, will take gamers not spending cash round two years based on one estimate, whereas these trying to make it rain can wrap up the gathering after dropping round $1,500.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
