Pokémon TCG Pocket’s new events let you get your missing promo cards

Pokémon TCG Pocket is formally one 12 months previous, and alongside its huge new Mega Rising enlargement, which kicks off the second 12 months’s B-series format, The Pokémon Firm has kicked off just a few new occasions to rejoice. These occasions are particular, too, as they’ll enable gamers an opportunity to get nearly each promotional card from the primary 12 months of the sport — a uncommon alternative to finish the Promo-A card dex. 

This chance is cut up into two related however separate occasions: a Surprise Decide occasion and a Drop Occasion, which entails battling towards CPUs with particular decks. 

The Surprise Decide occasion is pretty easy. Each promo card from prior Surprise Decide occasions has been added to a single pool of playing cards, and Bonus Picks, in addition to Chansey Picks, can seem at every Surprise Decide reset. Choosing from these is all right down to luck, each wherein playing cards seem and which card you get, but it surely’s not a foul choice to get playing cards when you’re lacking plenty of Surprise Decide promo playing cards. 

The Drop Occasion is a bit more attention-grabbing. There are 12 Superior-level battles, every of which is recycled from a previous occasion. Defeating a battle can provide you a Promo Pack from its corresponding occasion, and there are 5 playing cards in every pack, identical to the unique occasions these packs are primarily based on. Should you missed out on a particular occasion, you possibly can simply grind out that one battle to get packs, which makes it rather more constant than the Surprise Decide occasion. 

It’s price noting, nonetheless, that there’s one notable Drop Occasion battle that’s lacking: the particular Rayquaza ex Drop Occasion that occurred earlier this 12 months. Should you’re lacking playing cards from that occasion – which have been contained in Promo Pack A Sequence Vol. 7 – you then’re out of luck. You merely can’t get these playing cards on this occasion, and there’s no telling in the event that they’ll be made accessible sooner or later. 

You can also’t get any promotional playing cards given out for paid purchases, such because the month-to-month Premium bonus playing cards or the paid bundle Mewtwo card.

Should you don’t need to grind out Surprise Picks and battles, although, there may be one other technique to get a pair promo playing cards you’re lacking. Every occasion has a listing of missions to go alongside it, comparable to Surprise Choosing a specific amount of instances or finishing a specific amount of battles. Finishing these missions offers you tickets that may be traded for a duplicate of a particular card from your entire pool related to the occasion, so you possibly can select a card you really want. 

Have in mind, although, that you just solely get one ticket for the Surprise Decide occasion and one ticket for the Drop occasion. This implies you’ll solely be capable to get one particular card, so that you may need to put it aside for close to the tip of the occasion and solely use it if it appears to be like such as you’re going to be lacking out completely. 

Each the Surprise Decide occasion and the Drop Occasion finish in two weeks time, on November 9, 2025, so that you’ll need to get in fast if you wish to make amends for all the promo playing cards you missed.