Pokemon TCG Pocket Busts Out Another Major Expansion, Celestial Guardians, Themed Around Pokemon Sun and Moon

Pokemon TCG Pocket's dependable deluge of caller cards continues apace, with yet different marque caller enlargement connected its mode adjacent week. This one's a biggie, too: it's called Celestial Guardians, and it's themed astir Pokemon Sun and Moon.

Celestial Guardians officially releases connected April 30, and is simply a bigger enlargement than the past couple, with 2 antithetic types of booster packs themed astir legendaries Solgaleo and Lunala. It chiefly features Alolan Pokemon, including the 3 starters Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio, arsenic good arsenic determination variants specified arsenic Alolan Raichu and Marowak. And of course, it comes with caller trainer cards, themed astir fashionable characters from the Alola region, and caller ways to show your postulation specified arsenic a caller binder screen and show board.

Curiously, the acceptable besides appears to see what looks similar 2 versions of the starter trio, a daytime and a nighttime version, each with antithetic stats and abilities. It's unclear however prevalent this divided is going to beryllium passim the set, but it could marque for immoderate absorbing decks if determination are aggregate paths to getting the aforesaid cards retired connected the field.

Celestial Guardians is the sixth enlargement truthful acold and the 3rd large one, pursuing large expansions Genetic Apex and Space-Time Smackdown and smaller expansions Mythical Island, Triumphant Light, and the astir recent, Shining Revelry. At the clip this portion was written, nary of these expansions person been retired yet, but it's possibly lone a substance of clip earlier we accidental goodbye to Genetic Apex.

So far, Pokemon TCG Pocket has kept up the gait with astir 1 caller enlargement per month, alongside regular in-game solo and competitory events. Alongside collecting and battling, TCG Pocket besides implemented trading earlier this year, but the diagnostic was wide panned owed to its precocious outgo obstruction and deficiency of utile trading feature, forcing the developer to corroborate changes were connected the way... months down the road. Nevertheless, the crippled has been successful, and is estimated to person made fractional a cardinal dollars successful little than 3 months.

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