Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket gamers are swooning over opening what’s been dubbed a god pack, which incorporates tremendous uncommon alternate artwork playing cards in all 5 slots.
Card collectors have taken to social media to put up their god pack pulls, with some unable to imagine their luck and pondering a bug is at play. Blankb01 on Reddit, for instance, pulled alternate artwork variations of Moltres ex, Rapidash, Pinsir, Erika, and Charmander in a single pack.
Actual-Impact8802 pulled two alternate artwork Nidoqueens, a Nidoking, Gyarados, and Snorlax in theirs. Another person, bodeler, pulled a Moltres ex, Rapidash, Charizard ex, Moltres ex, and Alakazam, once more all within the extremely uncommon alternate artwork types. “I pooped,” they mentioned.
God Packs positively exist in Pokemon TCG Pocket! Check mine out! pic.twitter.com/JH4l3OM9pa
— Sauce McGavin (@SauceMcGavin) October 30, 2024
These 60 alternate playing cards are the rarest items out there in Pokémon TCG Pocket and add properly over a 12 months to the completion time of the primary set, Genetic Apex. Pulling 5 in a single go will definitely pace this course of alongside, nevertheless.
This has led many to desperately try to determine if there is a hidden mechanic that may set off god packs, although past the just about positively not official conspiracy idea about crinkled corners, it comes all the way down to pure luck.
Developer Creatures Inc. has shared the precise odds behind these packs, nevertheless, that are formally simply referred to as Rare Packs. Players have a 0.05% of opening one, Pokémon TCG Pocket tells gamers, which means a one in 2,000 likelihood.
Some pleasant fellow gamers and a few who’re, dare we are saying, jealous, are urging those that shared their god pack pulls to additionally share their good friend codes. Pokémon TCG Pocket options one thing referred to as Wonder Pick, which lets gamers dip into others’ packs and pull a kind of playing cards, and the checklist of accessible packs might be pulled from the good friend checklist.
This signifies that, if somebody is buddies with a participant who opens a god pack, that secondary participant may get a style. While Wonder Picks are sometimes reserved to middling packs, leaving loads of frequent playing cards on the desk for the random one in 5 likelihood, god packs clearly assure an extremely uncommon card even at their weakest.
Pokémon TCG Pocket arrived in October as a streamlined, digital model of the beloved buying and selling card sport. It has gamers opening packs, amassing playing cards, constructing decks, and battling others; a easy components that is already proved common given it made $12 million in 4 days.
Creatures Inc. is busy including all kinds of occasions to the sport, together with a participant versus participant battle occasion launched at present, November 7. This is not fairly a full aggressive mode for Pokémon TCG Pocket however is actually a step in that path, and will definitely be the primary correct aggressive take a look at of which decks are finest, with each Mewtwo ex and Charizard ex having dominated thus far.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
