Pokemon TCG Live (PC & Mobile)

Titles	Pokémon Trading Card Game Live Pokémon TCG Live (PTCGL); in English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Spanish (no Japanese version)
Platforms	Windows & macOS (download from the official Pokémon TCG website) · iPhone & iPad (App Store, iOS 15 or later) · Android (Google Play) · cross-platform play with one shared collection
Developer	The Pokémon Company International
Publisher	The Pokémon Company International
Players	1–2 (online); AI opponents in tutorials and Test Deck
Genre	Digital trading card game
Business model	Free-to-play with optional Trainer Point purchases; code cards from physical products unlock digital items
Cards	Every English expansion from Sun & Moon (2017) onwards is playable; Black & White and XY cards are collectable only
Ranked Ladder	20 ranks in six Leagues, from the Nest League to the Arceus League
Released	22 February 2022 (Canada, limited beta) · 15 November 2022 (worldwide beta) · 8 June 2023 (worldwide launch)
Latest version	1.43.0 (App Store, 6 October 2026)
Rating	ESRB E (Users Interact) · PEGI 3 · ACB G · ClassInd L · App Store 9+
Predecessor	Pokémon Trading Card Game Online (2011–2023)
Successor	None – still in service (Pokémon TCG Pocket, 2024, is a separate app)
Downloads	More than 10 million on Google Play

Overview · Quick Answers · TCG Online to Live · Gameplay · Game Modes · Ranked Ladder · Battle Pass & Shop · Pokémon · Updates · Regional Variations · Glitches · Videos · Trivia · Legacy · Sales & Reviews · Media

Overview

Pokémon Trading Card Game Live, or Pokémon TCG Live for short, is the free digital edition of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, built in-house by The Pokémon Company International for Windows, macOS, iPhone, iPad and Android. It was announced on 20 September 2021, in the middle of Pokémon’s 25th-anniversary year, and then spent well over a year in a limited beta that opened in Canada on 22 February 2022 and spread country by country until the whole world could join on 15 November 2022. The beta label finally came off on 8 June 2023, the day the Scarlet & Violet—Paldea Evolved expansion went live in the app.

Matches follow the rules of the tabletop game closely: 60-card decks, six Prize cards, Standard-format Ranked battles on a monthly Ladder that climbs to the Arceus League, and Casual rooms for Standard and for an Expanded format that reaches back to the Sun & Moon series. What Live leaves out is trading. Spare copies beyond a playset become Trade Credits instead, which buy the exact cards a deck is missing, while a free Battle Pass for every expansion hands out complete decks, booster packs and cosmetics. Code cards from real products still unlock digital packs, and Trainer Trials, Build & Battle and Professor Fir’s Learning Lab add variety between sets.

Live took over from Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, the computer and tablet client that had run since 2011 and went offline on 5 June 2023. Players could bring their cards across from Black & White onwards, but not their avatars, friends lists or currencies. Live is still the place where each new English-language expansion arrives digitally, and its economy has been rebuilt several times since launch, often in answer to what players asked for.

Today it sits alongside the much simpler Pokémon TCG Pocket as the faithful simulator that competitive players practise on, with a new expansion and a fresh Battle Pass roughly every two months.

Quick Answers

The questions people ask about Pokémon TCG Live, answered first and explained further down the page.

Is Pokémon TCG Live free to play, or is it pay-to-win?

It is free to download and play. Real money buys Trainer Points for booster packs and bundles, but the Battle Pass has been completely free since November 2024 and hands out two competitive decks per expansion, while spare duplicates turn into Trade Credits that buy specific cards. Spending mostly speeds up a collection rather than unlocking anything you cannot earn. More →

Can you still play Pokémon TCG Live in 2026?

Yes. The game is live and still being updated: version 1.43.0 reached the App Store on 6 October 2026, and each new Mega Evolution series expansion arrives with its own Battle Pass. It is a free download from the App Store, Google Play and the official website for Windows and macOS, and it needs an internet connection. More →

Is Pokémon TCG Live on Nintendo Switch?

No. It runs only on Windows PCs, Macs, iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Progress is tied to a Pokémon Trainer Club account, so the same collection, decks and Battle Pass follow you from device to device, and players on phones and computers meet in the same online matchmaking. More →

Can I transfer my Pokémon TCG Online collection?

Yes, and the transfer stayed open after Online’s servers closed on 5 June 2023. Up to four copies of most cards from Black & White onwards move across, plus one of each ACE SPEC, Prism Star and V-UNION piece and 59 basic Energy. Unopened products were refunded as currency, while avatars, friends lists and Online’s currencies stayed behind. More →

Can you trade cards in Pokémon TCG Live?

No. Trading between players, a feature of TCG Online, was dropped. Every copy beyond a full playset turns automatically into Trade Credits, which the Deck Editor and Card Dex let you spend on exact cards: 400 for a Rare or 750 for an Illustration Rare, for example. Overnumbered cards cannot be bought this way for six months after release. More →

Do code cards from physical Pokémon TCG products work?

Yes. Booster packs, Elite Trainer Boxes, theme decks and other products marked with the TCG Live symbol contain codes that you type in or scan as QR codes in the Shop’s Redeem section, or enter on the Pokémon TCG website. Each product has a soft cap, after which its codes pay only a little currency, and old TCG Online codes still work. More →

How does Ranked mode work in Pokémon TCG Live?

Ranked uses the Standard format and a monthly Ladder of 20 ranks spread across the Nest, Quick, Poké, Great, Ultra and Arceus Leagues. A win earns 10 Rank Points, or 13 during a winning streak, and defeats only cost points from the Ultra League upwards. The Arceus League starts at 550 points, after which players move on to an Elo rating. More →

What is the difference between Pokémon TCG Live and Pokémon TCG Pocket?

TCG Live is a full simulator of the physical card game, with 60-card decks, every new Standard expansion and code-card support. Pokémon TCG Pocket, released in October 2024, is a separate app built around collecting, with quick 20-card battles and its own digital-only sets. Pocket did not replace Live; the two are updated side by side. More →

From TCG Online to TCG Live

Live was designed from the start as the replacement for Pokémon TCG Online, and the changeover took the best part of two years, from the reveal in September 2021 to Online’s last day in June 2023. Collections made the journey; trading did not. The economy built in its place has been reworked several times since launch: the Battle Pass lost its paid track, the Ranked Ladder was shortened twice, Coins were withdrawn and digital packs grew to full size. Every new English expansion has been added along the way, nearly always with a Battle Pass of its own.

• 2021revealed on 20 September
• 3 daysbetween Online’s shutdown and Live’s launch
• 4copies of most cards carried over
• 0trades between players: spares become Trade Credits

The handover

Every premade deck TCG Online ever offered, from its 2011 starter decks to the last League Battle Decks, is listed in our guide to Pokémon TCG Online decks.

Passes, credits and currencies

Trade Credits instead of tradingOnline let players trade freely; Live has no trading at all. Copies beyond a playset are converted automatically into Trade Credits (simply Credits until version 1.22.0), which buy exact cards in the Deck Editor and the Card Dex. A Rare costs 400 and an Illustration Rare 750, while overnumbered cards are held back for six months after their release.

The Battle PassEach expansion’s pass originally had a free track and a paid Premium Pass bought with Crystals, plus a Premium Pass + that also unlocked the first 15 tiers at once. With Surging Sparks in November 2024 the two tracks merged into a single free one of 74 tiers, later stretched to 100, which opens with a competitive deck and offers a second roughly halfway along.

A shorter Ranked LadderReaching the Arceus League at the top of the monthly Ladder once took 2,660 Rank Points. Version 1.12.0 cut that to 1,620 in March 2024, and the Surging Sparks Ladder brought it down to 550 in November 2024, adding win-streak bonuses at the same time. From the December 2024 season Arceus League players have been ranked by an Elo rating, and since July 2025 a monthly reset drops nobody more than eight tiers.

Coins withdrawn, currencies renamedCoins, the third currency, which had bought cosmetics, were withdrawn on 3 December 2024. Balances were converted into Crystals at four Coins to one Crystal, avatar clothing became free and deck cosmetics moved over to Crystals. Version 1.22.0 later renamed Crystals as Trainer Points and Credits as Trade Credits, leaving the game with the two currencies it has today.

Full-size packs and the Card DexUntil July 2025 a digital booster held six cards, or five for sets older than Scarlet & Violet, instead of the ten in a real pack. That month’s update matched every pack to its physical counterpart and added the Card Dex, a set-by-set gallery of the collection whose Master Set view also takes in parallels, overnumbered cards and subsets.

Every expansion on TCG Live

At launch Live held every card from the Sun & Moon series onwards, and Paldea Evolved went live on launch day itself. When Obsidian Flames arrived on 10 August 2023, Sun & Moon booster packs and theme decks joined the Shop as well, a first step, the developers said, towards full Expanded play. Every Scarlet & Violet and Mega Evolution series expansion since has followed. The dates below are the English retail releases:

Gameplay

A match of Pokémon TCG Live plays out just as it would across a table: shuffle a 60-card deck, set out six Prize cards and take turns until someone has taken all six, or until a player has no card left to draw or no Pokémon left in play. Cards are dragged from the hand to the Active Spot, the Bench or the Stadium area, and the game enforces every rule, from coin flips and Special Conditions to the Lost Zone.

Battles and presentationRather than a tabletop, the arena is a futuristic, glowing board. The in-play zone changes colour to match the Energy type of the newest Active Pokémon, attacks play type-themed animations, a Knock Out sends a red burst across the field and the board lights up to show whose turn it is. Ancient and Future cards set off effects of their own. Players react through an emote wheel that slides their 3D avatar on screen to perform a gesture, and a battle log records every action.

Match and decision timersEach player has a personal match clock that only runs while they have a decision to make, and letting it reach zero loses the game. The Surging Sparks update in November 2024 trimmed it from 25 to 20 minutes, the developers pointing out that most games are settled long before the limit. Single decisions carry a short countdown that appears in the final 15 seconds; if it runs out the game chooses for you, and enough automatic choices in a row count as inactivity and forfeit the match.

Your Trainer

Avatars, profiles and friendsEvery player has a 3D avatar built on one of two base body types, with faces, hair, glasses, hats, tops, bottoms and shoes to choose from. Poses play at the start of a match and after a win, and catchphrases pop up as text at similar moments. All avatar clothing has been free since 3 December 2024; seasonal pieces come from the Ladder and occasional gifts from codes. The profile tracks matches played, wins, losses and the current winning streak, and the Friends list adds players by screen name so they can be challenged directly.

Game Modes

Ranked play has a section of its own below. Around it, TCG Live offers relaxed Casual matches, rotating rule sets, a prerelease-style Limited event and a run of lessons for newcomers:

Casual, Expanded and friendly battlesCasual mode offers matches without Rank Points, either in Casual Standard or in Expanded, which still carries a beta label. Expanded on Live begins with the Sun & Moon series, because only cards from Sun & Moon onwards have had their effects programmed: Black & White and XY cards brought over from TCG Online sit in collections but cannot be played. Battles against people on the Friends list use the Standard format.

Trainer TrialsAdded to Casual mode in March 2025, Trainer Trials are limited-time rule sets that change over at 10am Pacific time. The regulars include Singleton Showdown, Twin Battle, Silver Series (only Scarlet & Violet Commons, Uncommons and Rares, with no Rule Box cards), Gym Leader Challenge, CU Cup, Aceless and Half-Year Havoc. Themed one-offs have followed, such as Mega Singleton Showdown, which demands exactly one Mega Evolution Pokémon ex per deck, Trick or Treat Tussle, Blooming Buddies Battle, Fighting-Type Frenzy, Water-Type Wallop and a 2025 World Championships Rematch.

Build & BattleLaunched on 21 May 2026, Build & Battle recreates a prerelease event. An Event Token buys a Build & Battle Box and four booster packs from a chosen Standard expansion, and players build a 40-card deck from those cards for five matches in a Limited format with its own Elo ladder. Every result pays: a win in either of the first two matches gives a booster and 50 Trainer Points, a third win adds a fresh Event Token, a fourth pays two boosters and 75 Trainer Points and a fifth three boosters and 150 Trainer Points, while losses still earn 50 to 150 Trainer Points.

Learning to play

Professor Fir

The game’s resident teacher, Professor Fir welcomes newcomers to Pokémon TCG Live and walks them through the rules in the opening tutorial. Since January 2026 the Professor has also run the Learning Lab, taking on the player in tutorial matches that range from basic refresher lessons to focused ones on single cards and concepts.

The Ranked Ladder

Ranked mode plays the Standard format and pairs opponents with similar Rank Points. A win is worth 10 points, or 13 during a winning streak, and defeats cost nothing until the Ultra League. Each season lasts a month: points reset, rewards are handed out and anyone who played at least five matches collects extra end-of-season prizes. Under the November 2024 changes a reset sent anyone above the Quick League back to the Poké League; since July 2025 nobody falls more than eight tiers.

The 20 ranks, from the foot of the Ladder to the top:

• TogepiNest League
• ChinglingNest League
• RioluNest League
• PikachuQuick League
• DiglettQuick League
• CutieflyQuick League
• SnomQuick League
• GyaradosPoké League
• GholdengoPoké League
• HoundoomPoké League
• GalvantulaPoké League
• GardevoirGreat League
• GreninjaGreat League
• CorviknightGreat League
• TyranitarGreat League
• MewtwoUltra League
• GiratinaUltra League
• OgerponUltra League
• EternatusUltra League
• ArceusArceus League

Every League above the Nest League has a reward for getting there and pays out again at the end of each season:

Battle Pass, Shop & Collection

Cards reach a TCG Live collection in three ways: the free Battle Pass of each expansion, the Shop, and code cards from physical products. Trade Credits then fill in the gaps.

Battle Pass and daily questsEvery expansion brings a new Battle Pass that runs until the next set arrives, usually about nine weeks. Tier 0 hands over a complete 60-card deck built around the new cards, and a second deck waits about halfway along the 100 free tiers. Rewards include booster packs, Trainer Points, Trade Credits, Secret Rare upgrades and cosmetics, and a tier can be skipped for 200 Trainer Points. Three daily quests, one harder than the others, supply the XP, and each tier asks for a little more than the last.

Deck Editor, Trade Credits and Card DexThe Deck Editor searches and filters the whole collection, imports deck lists and lets players name decks with up to 22 characters and dress them in deck boxes, sleeves and coins. Missing cards can be bought outright with Trade Credits, earned mainly when copies beyond a playset convert automatically; event-only promos are the exception. Test Deck pits any legal list against an AI opponent with frozen clocks and no rewards, and the Card Dex shows every set in Main Set and Master Set views.

Shop and currenciesTrainer Points are the main currency, bought with real money or earned through play, with Trade Credits alongside them. The Shop sells booster bundles that come with a few Credits, as in the table below. Promo Sets, which could each be bought once, paired Black Star Promos with three boosters for the expansions from Chilling Reign to Paldea Evolved, while nine-card Collector Crates are prizes from the Ladder and the Battle Pass.

Booster packs and code cards

How code cards workSince July 2025 every digital booster has matched its physical counterpart, with the occasional high-rarity card taking the place of the first Common. Physical products marked with the TCG Live symbol, from booster packs and theme decks to Elite Trainer Boxes, contain code cards that are typed in or scanned as QR codes in the Shop’s Redeem menu, or entered on the Pokémon TCG website. Each product has a soft redemption limit, beyond which its codes pay only a little currency, and old TCG Online codes still redeem.

Pokémon

There is no fixed roster in TCG Live: the game holds the cards of every English expansion it supports, so its Pokémon count grows with each new set. Cards from the Sun & Moon series of 2017 onwards are fully playable and cover Pokémon from all nine generations, while the Black & White and XY cards brought over from TCG Online sit in collections without any game logic. New Pokémon arrive roughly every two months with each expansion and its Battle Pass, from Scarlet & Violet’s Paradox Pokémon and Tera Pokémon ex to the Mega Evolution Pokémon ex that returned with the Mega Evolution series in September 2025.

A few Pokémon have a special place in the game. Togepi, Pikachu, Eternatus and Arceus are among the Ladder ranks above; these are the others:

• CharizardStarter deck
• ArchaludonBattle Pass deck
• ZacianQuest deck
• BudewLearning Lab
• PecharuntWorlds 2024 code
• QuaxlyAnniversary cap

• Charizard – Charizard ex leads one of the eight starter decks, and the hyper rare Charizard ex from Obsidian Flames (pictured) was the 2023 World Championships stream code.
• Archaludon – Archaludon ex was the second deck on the first single-track Battle Pass, Surging Sparks, whose opening deck was Pikachu ex.
• Zacian – A free Hop’s Zacian ex deck was the prize for a Metal-type quest during the Journey Together Battle Pass.
• Budew – Prismatic Evolutions’ Budew is the subject of its own lesson in Professor Fir’s Learning Lab.
• Pecharunt – A Special Illustration Rare Pecharunt ex (Shrouded Fable 93) was the 2024 World Championships stream code.
• Quaxly – The Quaxly Baseball Cap for avatars was the gift for the game’s first anniversary in June 2024.

Updates & Events

The main milestones in TCG Live’s life so far, from the reveal to the latest App Store build:

Regional Variations

TCG Live is made for the Western card market, and a few things depend on where you play:

• There is no Japanese version. The app is offered in English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
• The beta opened country by country, so players in Canada had the game almost nine months before most of the world could join (see the timeline).
• Brazil has its own Brazilian Portuguese code card, and the game carries a ClassInd L rating there.

Glitches, exploits and oddities

Crashes dogged the beta, and the match clock has one quirk worth knowing about:

Crashes and bugs

Crashes that threw players out of matches were reported all through the limited and global betas, and early previews noted plenty of small glitches; Wargamer’s hands-on in March 2022 hoped they would be ironed out before release. Shortly before the June 2023 launch, Android Police pointed to those mid-match crashes as one reason for the beta’s lukewarm reception, and the complaints outlived it: in December 2024 Pocket Tactics still called the app buggy, saying it had not improved since the beta.

Sudden Death on an old clock

When a match ends in a tie and goes to Sudden Death, the match clocks are not refreshed, so a player who has already used up most of their time starts the deciding game with only what is left of it.

Videos & media

The Pokémon Company’s first look at the game:

The sneak-peek trailer released with the reveal on 20 September 2021.

Trivia & facts

• Pokémon TCG Live was the first version of the card game that could be played on a smartphone: Pokémon TCG Online only ever ran on computers and tablets.
• Every rank on the Ranked Ladder is named after a Pokémon, starting with Togepi at 0 Rank Points and ending with Arceus.
• Two expansions could be played in the app a day before they reached the shops: Paldea Evolved on 8 June 2023 and Obsidian Flames on 10 August 2023.

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  Early builds showed Benched Pokémon and Stadiums as condensed art, with no names or text. The look was dropped after player feedback, and full card art took its place.

• The refunds for unopened TCG Online products were doubled from the amounts first announced, topping out at 12,400 for anyone holding 125 or more items.
• When Coins were withdrawn, the conversion was capped at 5,000 Coins, so nobody could receive more than 1,250 Crystals in exchange.
• In Test Deck mode both match clocks are frozen at 39:00, so practice games against the AI never time out.
• TCG Live switched to the 2026–27 Standard format before official Play! Pokémon tournaments did, so the Champion’s Training Ground Trainer Trial in spring 2026 kept the 2025–26 card pool for anyone practising for events.

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  The game marked its first birthday in June 2024 with an in-game round-up of statistics and a free Quaxly Baseball Cap for avatars, unlocked with the code TCGLFirst2024.

Legacy

What came after

• Pokémon TCG Online shut down – 5 June 2023. The predecessor went offline three days before Live’s launch; its collections can still be migrated
• Global launch – 8 June 2023. Live left beta alongside the digital release of Paldea Evolved
• Pokémon TCG Pocket – October 2024. A separate, simpler card app with 20-card battles and digital-only sets; Live carries on alongside it
• Single-track Battle Pass – 7 November 2024. The Surging Sparks pass merged the free and Premium tracks into one free pass
• Mega Evolution series – 26 September 2025. Mega Evolution Pokémon ex arrive with the Mega Evolution expansion
• Build & Battle – 21 May 2026. A prerelease-style Limited event with its own Elo ladder
• Version 1.43.0 – 6 October 2026. The latest App Store build, a month after version 1.42.0 introduced a new icon

Where to play it today

Pokémon TCG Live is fully active in October 2026. It is a free download from the App Store for iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or later), from Google Play for Android and from the official Pokémon TCG website for Windows and macOS, with optional Trainer Point purchases. Updates arrive roughly every month, the latest App Store build being version 1.43.0 from 6 October 2026, and new Mega Evolution series expansions keep coming with free Battle Passes. A Pokémon Trainer Club account and an internet connection are needed, and former TCG Online players can still migrate their old collections.

How it was made

Pokémon TCG Live was developed in-house by The Pokémon Company International, which also publishes it, rather than by Dire Wolf Digital, the studio behind the final years of TCG Online. TPCi revealed the app on 20 September 2021 in a press release from Bellevue, Washington, together with a sneak-peek trailer, as part of Pokémon’s 25th-anniversary celebrations. Barry Sams, TPCi’s vice president for the Pokémon TCG, said it would go hand in hand with the tabletop game and open a new era of digital play.

The first plan was a mobile soft launch in Canada and a worldwide open beta for PC and Mac later in 2021, but in November that year both were pushed back into 2022 to give players a more polished experience. The limited beta finally began in Canada on 22 February 2022 on Android, Windows and macOS, with iOS following that April. Since then the team, signing itself the Pokémon TCG Live Development Team, has explained each major change in regular Letters to the Community.

TCG Live on stream and at events

World Championships stream codesBroadcasts of the Pokémon World Championships regularly carry TCG Live codes. Viewers of the 2022 event in London could redeem a Secret Rare Path to the Peak, 2023’s CelebrateWCS23 unlocked a hyper rare Charizard ex from Obsidian Flames and 2024’s code gave a Special Illustration Rare Pecharunt ex. In 2025, Twitch Drops rewarded 90 minutes of viewing with cosmetics, 2,000 Trade Credits and 2,000 Trainer Points.

International Championships and co-streamsInternational Championship broadcasts have become code drops too: the 2026 Latin America event handed out four Phantasmal Flames boosters and the 2026 Europe event four Ascended Heroes boosters, alongside separate Twitch Drops. At the 2025 World Championships, the co-streaming code WCS25TCGL gave cards of Hilda, N’s Plan and the Tynamo line.

Stellar Crown ShowdownIn September and October 2024 TPCi and Geek & Sundry ran Stellar Crown Showdown, a three-episode YouTube mini-series in which host Alison Mattingly played friendly Pokémon TCG matches with Terry Crews, Jacob Batalon and Abigail Breslin to promote the Stellar Crown expansion. Each episode included codes for TCG Live players to redeem.

Celebration codesThe big days in the Pokémon calendar bring codes of their own. TCGLFirst2024 celebrated the game’s first anniversary, and POKEMONDAY2026 marked Pokémon Day 2026 with 3,000 Trainer Points, 3,000 Trade Credits and 30 Mega Evolution series booster packs.

Sales & reviews

Downloads

Pokémon TCG Live is free to play, and The Pokémon Company has not published player numbers or revenue for it. The one public figure comes from Google Play, which counted more than 10 million Android downloads by October 2026; there are no matching numbers for the iPhone, iPad, Windows and macOS versions. On the US App Store the game had gathered about 39,000 user ratings by the same point.

• 10m+downloads on Google Play
• 4.4/5Google Play rating (97,300 reviews)
• 4.3/5US App Store rating (39,000 ratings)
• Freeto download, with optional Trainer Points

Review scores

No major outlet has given TCG Live a scored review, and Metacritic lists no critic reviews at all, so most of the bars below are store ratings from players. The written verdicts pull in different directions. Wargamer’s beta hands-on called it “a much friendlier and much more widely accessible entry than its predecessor”, while Pocket Tactics was blunter in a December 2024 comparison with Pocket: “It’s buggy, it looks horrible, and the animations are downright nauseating.”

Most of TCG Live’s coverage has come as news, previews and comparisons rather than reviews. The beta previews liked how approachable it was: Wargamer’s Amber Willmott found it far friendlier than TCG Online, with better starter decks, a cleaner interface and simpler quests, though she also noted bugs, repetitive music and thin single-player content. Just before the global launch, Android Police described the beta’s reception as lukewarm, pointing to crashes that ejected players from matches. Later comparisons with Pokémon TCG Pocket generally saw Live, with its 60-card decks, as the more faithful version of the physical game, but Pocket Tactics’ Daz Skubich found it unattractive as well as buggy, with digital secret rares that looked pixelated, and missed the trading and local League promos of the old client. Players have been kinder: the app holds 4.3 stars on the US App Store and 4.4 on Google Play, while Metacritic’s user score of 3.8 rests on just five ratings.

Media & artwork

• Box art from Pokémon Trading Card Game Live
• Pokémon TCG sets, cards and artwork in the TCG section

Further reading

More card games and PC & mobile games on the site: