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Pokémon TCG Pocket's focus is on pack opening, but there's a promising version of the card game underneath

Our preview of Pokémon TCG Pocket - the mobile version of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

While she had accepted my new-found obsession with its yellow mouse, she believed the cards were a waste of money since there was no guarantee which ones I'd get, and completing my collection involved buying an awful lot of packs. I didn't have time to properly test out these matches as much as I'd have liked, but having played the Pokémon TCG competitively in the past, these new mechanics do appear to offer a good reworking of the game for mobile devices. Its focus on card collecting shows a faithfulness to its roots, while appealing to the pack opening scene that's so popular on YouTube and TikTok today.

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