Card Set Development Ending for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online (2024)

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Card Set Development Ending for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online? ›

To devote resources to the Pokémon Trading Card Game Live, card set development for the Pokémon TCG Online will end on March 1, 2023. With the upcoming sunsetting of the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, no further card set development will be supported in the game as of March 1, 2023.

When was the Pokémon TCG Online sunsetted? The Pokémon TCG Online app was removed from the App Store, Google Play, and Pokemon.com—and game servers were shut down—on June 5, 2023, at 9 a.m. PDT, prior to the official worldwide launch of Pokémon TCG Live on June 8, 2023.

Pokemon TCG Online will continue to support Versus Ladder reward tracks and bug fixes leading up to the game's shutdown. According to The Pokemon Company, Pokemon TCG Online's shutdown helps ensure more development resources are dedicated to Pokemon TCG Live.

If you have ever played another TCG, I am sure you are already familiar with this concept, since it is very relevant in other games like Magic: The Gathering as well. To give you some perspective, there are normally 4 sets that rotate in a normal year, as there's a new set released every 3 months.

Development and release. Pokémon Trading Card Game Online was co-developed by Dire Wolf and Dire Wolf Digital LLC, and published by The Pokémon Company. It was released on 24 March 2011.

Pokémon Trading Card Game is available to all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers via the Game Boy app.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is scheduled for release in 2024.

Yes. The migration process uses the combined total of tradable and trade-locked copies of an item in the collection. This applies to cards, accessories, and unopened products and bundles in the player's Pokémon TCG Online collection at the time they migrate their collection to Pokémon TCG Live.

Cards with the “E” regulation mark will no longer be legal for play in the 2024 Standard format. Cards with “F,” “G,” and “H” regulation marks will be legal to use (as will any future regulation marks that may be released). A card's legality status is no longer based on which expansion it's from.

"Mismagius" from Sun & Moon: Unbroken Bonds is a banned card in Pokémon TCG Expanded format. This "Mismagius" has the "Mysterious Message" ability, which allows "Mismagius" to KO itself, so the player may draw until they have 7 cards in hand.

Why is Ash not in the TCG? ›

1 Answer. As the Pokémon TCG follows the console games rather than anime, Ash was never a star in the TCG (because he was never in any console game).

The main series of role-playing video games (RPGs), referred as the "core series" by their developers, has continued on each generation of Nintendo's handhelds. The most recently released core series games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, were released on November 18, 2022, for the Nintendo Switch.

The Pokémon Trading Card Game is reintroducing the original EX format, and its effect on the card game will be huge. The Scarlet and Violet base set will start in March 2023, with the Sword and Shield set ending with the recently-released Crown Zenith expansion.

Genius Invokation TCG is a permanent game mode introduced in Version 3.3.

Yes. The migration process uses the combined total of tradable and trade-locked copies of an item in the collection. This applies to cards, accessories, and unopened products and bundles in the player's Pokémon TCG Online collection at the time they migrate their collection to Pokémon TCG Live.

The hotly anticipated Genius Invokation TCG marks a change to the formula, however. Much like the Serenitea Pot, Genius Invokation TCG is now a permanent mainstay in Genshin Impact's endgame.