Pokémon Buying and selling Card Recreation Pocket is ready to launch its first growth, Legendary Island, with some brand-new playing cards and new deckbuilding potentialities. Whereas Pokémon TCG Pocket has solely been out for a number of weeks, gamers are greedily snatching up playing cards from its opening set, Genetic Apex. Gamers have largely decided the meta for Pokémon TCG Pocket, with playing cards like Pikachu ex and Mewtwo ex dominating on-line tournaments and play. Nonetheless, Pokémon TCG Pocket is about to shake issues up with the discharge of Legendary Island, its very first growth.
Legendary Island will include over 80 new playing cards, together with a handful of recent Pokémon ex playing cards and new alternate artwork playing cards. Because the identify of the set suggests, the Legendary Pokémon Mew will probably be a spotlight of the set and seems on the digital booster pack artwork and different promotional materials for the set. From the preliminary trailer, it seems that there’ll solely be one type of booster pack, which means that the playing cards will not be cut up up amongst subsets like Genetic Apex was. The set will even include a number of new equipment resembling new binders and show boards.
When Legendary Island Set Releases In TCG Pocket
The New Set Comes Out On December seventeenth
The excellent news is that gamers will not have to attend lengthy to start out opening Legendary Island packs. The new set will probably be launched on December seventeenth, 2024. Gamers ought to be capable to open packs instantly, utilizing both Pack Hourglasses or their free every day packs.
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At present, it is unknown what time Legendary Island will go dwell, however earlier Pokémon TCG Pocket occasions have gone dwell at 1 AM ET, so count on the same timing for the Legendary Island launch. As soon as the set is launched, gamers can swap between Genetic Apex packs and Legendary Island packs from the principle display screen.
Additionally confirmed for Legendary Island are a number of new show boards and binders. Up to now, a binder show that includes Serperior, Stonjourner, and Beheeyem is confirmed, as is a brand new show board with a leaf sample. These must also seem within the in-game store and will probably be obtainable for store tickets. The ultimate confirmed piece of Legendary Island content material are new solo occasion challenges that use new decks. The three confirmed new solo deck challenges are towards decks that includes Mew ex and Mewtwo ex, Aerodactyl ex and Marowak ex, and Blue and Pidgeot ex.
What Playing cards Are Confirmed For Legendary Island
Highlights Embrace Mew ex, Aerodactyl ex, Marshadow, and Tauros
In accordance with current leaks, Legendary Island is not a full set for Pokémon TCG Pocket. In contrast to Genetic Apex (which comprises 226 playing cards, not together with alternate artwork playing cards), Legendary Island ought to solely include round 80 playing cards. The set comprises a number of Pokémon new to Pokémon TCG Pocket, together with some favorites from the earlier set. The total checklist of recognized Legendary Island playing cards consists of the next:
- Mew ex
- Aerodactyl ex
- Morelull
- Snivy
- Exeggcute
- Dhelmise
- Larvesta
- Magmar
- Vaporeon (alternate artwork confirmed)
- Dedenne (alternate artwork confirmed)
- Marshadow (alternate artwork confirmed)
- Tauros
- Blue
- Leaf
There are additionally a number of Pokémon that appeared in paintings within the trailer for the brand new set, however didn’t have a card revealed. Pokémon who seem on promo artwork for Legendary Island however haven’t had a card revealed embrace the next:
- Liepard
- Serperior
- Stonjourner
- Beheeyem
- Gyarados
- Volcarona
- Mankey
- Exeggutor
- Magikarp
- Rapidash
- Salandit
- Salazzle
Assuming that Legendary Island comprises pre-evolved or developed types of Pokémon featured in both playing cards or paintings associated to the units, we will additionally speculate the next Pokémon will even seem:
- Outdated Amber (Aerodactyl)
- Servine (Snivy, Serperior)
- Shiinotic (Morelull)
- Eevee (Vaporeon)
- Elgyem (Beheeyem)
- Purrloin (Liepard)
- Ponyta (Rapidash)
- Primeape (Mankey)
Assuming that Legendary Island consists of all of the Pokémon listed above, 34 playing cards, or about 40% of the Legendary Island set, are accounted for. That leaves loads of room for surprises between now and subsequent week. It is moreover not recognized what number of alternate artwork playing cards, full artwork playing cards, immersive artwork playing cards, and gold full artwork playing cards will seem in Legendary Island. Mew ex is a probable candidate for brand new full artwork and gold full artwork playing cards, though Mew has already gotten an immersive artwork card through a secret mission.
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Two of essentially the most intriguing playing cards revealed up to now are Tauros and Marshadow. The brand new Tauros card offers 40 injury usually, however offers an additional 80 injury to Pokémon ex playing cards. Which means Tauros can one-shot Pokémon like Pikachu ex and Starmie ex. Marshadow can also be a Pikachu ex one-shotter, with a Revenge assault that offers 100 injury if a participant’s Pokémon was knocked out the earlier spherical. As Marshadow is a Preventing-type Pokémon, it offers 20 further injury to Pikachu ex, which means it is the proper counter for the powerhouse Pokémon.
How To Put together For The New Pokémon TCGP Set
End Occasions And Do not Spend Hourglasses For The Subsequent 5 Days
For gamers seeking to prep for the brand new Legendary Island set, the simplest means is to easily hoard pack hourglasses. Gamers can receive 4 Pack Hourglasses per day by finishing 3 missions per day. They’ll additionally earn as much as 24 Pack Hourglasses by competing within the new Genetic Apex SP Emblem occasion that runs via December 16. Different potential sources of Pack Hourglasses are via leveling up, ending particular person solo deck missions, or by buying pack hourglasses utilizing store tickets. Gamers may select to spend cash to purchase extra pack hourglasses.
Hopefully, gamers will have already got a good variety of Pack Hourglasses main into the brand new set. If they do not, they need to additionally keep in mind that they will focus their free packs per day on Legendary Island. Given that there is solely round 80 playing cards (earlier than alternate artwork playing cards), it should not take a whole lot of packs to get a lot of the playing cards within the pack. Additionally, needless to say Legendary Island is a mini-set and that in six or so weeks, Pokémon Buying and selling Card Recreation Pocket will probably be making ready to launch a brand new, bigger set of playing cards into the sport.
Supply: PokémonTCGP/X
- Launched
- October 30, 2024
- Developer(s)
- DeNA , Creatures Inc.
- Writer(s)
- The Pokemon Firm
