Card packs

Getting started with cards

Cards open with the Kanto Set 1 quest line in Celadon City, after Erika’s Rainbow Badge. The Card Collector gives you 3 starter packs and explains each part as you go.

Packs

• Free packs arrive on a timer: one every 60 minutes at first (down to 30 with upgrades), stored up to 5 (up to 10). They keep coming while you’re away.
• Buying a pack costs 3,000 Quest Points.
• A pack has 5 cards at first (up to 10). Every card but the last is common (77%) or uncommon (23%); the last card is the rare slot: 15% rare at first, up to 80% with upgrades. If you haven’t had a rare for 15 packs, the next one is guaranteed.
• 1 pack in 500 is a god pack (all rare). 1 card in 256 is pulled shiny on the spot.

Tiers: Normal → Gold → Animated → Shiny

Copies of a card raise its tier. Rarer cards need fewer copies:

Next tier	Common	Uncommon	Rare
Gold	5	4	3
Animated	15	12	8
Shiny	30	24	16

Why collect: attack

Each card makes that Pokémon stronger in battle: Normal +2%, Gold +5%, Animated +10%, Shiny +20%.

Upgrades and the vault

Six upgrades (cards per pack, pack timer, storage, rare odds, god pack chance, vault loot) fill up from their own source and cost ₽50K / 250K / 1M / 4M / 15M per level. Duplicates of maxed cards and every pack fill the vault; when it’s full it gives a pile of items you can already get in the game.