Finally, the feature we’ve all been waiting for! If you updated your app recently then trading is now available in your Pocket app. Unfortunately there’s some terms and conditions that comes along with it, so read on for all the “need to know” information:
- You seemingly can only trade amongst friends (which, don’t forget, you’re limited to 99 of them)
- You can only trade up to ☆ and ♢♢♢♢ level cards
- Aka you’re still going to have to pull a ☆☆ or ☆☆☆ or 🜲 card the old fashioned way (through opening 1000 packs and being mad you still haven’t pulled one or now have five duplicates of the same one!)
- There’s special items that allow you to trade:
- Trade Tokens – required to trade high-rarity cards. You’ll need 125 tokens to trade a ♢♢♢ card, 375 tokens to trade a ☆ card, and 500 tokens if you want to trade a ♢♢♢♢ card. We’ll admit, we find it a little weird that it costs more tokens to pull an EX card but since the app is focused around playability, it kind of makes sense. Collectors of special illustrations are getting away with a bargain.
- Trade Stamina – used to make the trades, can be refilled with Trade Hourglass (similar functionality as the Wonder Picks only it takes a lot longer to regenerate)
- If you run out of Trade Tokens then you can exchange your duplicate cards to obtain some more (but they have to be ♢♢♢ and above rarity)
- Sorry folks, as with life, nobody wants your bulk
- You can only trade like-rarity cards. The app won’t let you swap a common for a rare – so no gimmes amongst friends
- The trade isn’t final until both people accept the trade
We’re interested to see how this works if the app broadens the feature to the full community, because we could see it being a little clunky. Personally it took about 10 minutes for us to discuss what cards we needed vs what we had duplicates of before initiating the trade in the app. It is super fun once you complete a trade though, a lot of whooshing and flashy graphics so we suggest you try it out!
