How to Get the Rarest Cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket

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Learn your odds for opening rare cards in your TCGP game

Co-authored by Hunter Rising

Last Updated: October 1, 2025 Fact Checked

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Are you hooked on Pokémon TCG Pocket and want to find rare cards to use in the game? The odds of getting rare cards are pretty low in standard packs, but there are some tricks to get them. Keep reading, and we’ll break down the Pokémon TCG Pocket rarest cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket and how you can easily add them to your digital collection.

What are the rarest cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket?

The rarest cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket are Ultra Rare crown cards with a gold background. They only appear in around 0.053% of booster packs. Other rare cards include Immersive Rares, Shiny Super Rares, and Special Art Rares with alternate illustrations.

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Rarest Card Types in Pokémon TCG Pocket

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Ultra Rare Ultra Rare cards are most notable for their full art and their holographic golden background. There are usually only 1-3 Crown Rare cards released each expansion, and they have a low chance of appearing when you open boosters, making them the rarest cards in the game.^{[1]
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- Rarity Symbol: Crown
- Example Cards: Charizard EX, Pikachu EX, Mewtwo EX, Ho-Oh EX, Lugia EX, Mantyke
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Immersive Rare Immersive Rare cards have alternate art and black borders around the edges. When you press and hold your finger on an Immersive Rare card, you get transported into the world of the card to see new backgrounds and animations.^{[2]
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- Rarity Symbol: 3 stars
- Example Cards: Suicune EX, Eevee EX, Buzzwole EX, Celebi EX, Guzma
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Shiny Super Rare Shiny Super Rare cards have art that takes up the entire card, and the Pokémon featured has its shiny color scheme. Shiny Pokémon cards were only recently added to TCG Pocket, so there are only a handful of these rare cards in the game.
- Rarity Symbol: Two 8-pointed rainbow stars
- Example Cards: Beedrill EX, Wugtrio EX, Lucario EX, Arcanine EX, Paldean Clodsire EX
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Super Rare & Special Art Rare The Pokémon and Supporters on Super Rares fill the entire card and usually have multicolored holographic backgrounds. Special Art Rares are the same rarity, but they feature alternate art scenes and a rainbow border, so they look truly unique.
- Rarity Symbol: 2 stars
- Example Cards: Gengar EX, Machamp EX, Giovanni, Umbreon EX, Entei EX
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Shiny Just like shiny Pokémon in the games, Shiny cards in TCG Pocket feature Pokémon with alternate color schemes. While the standard Shinies are more common than Super Rares, they still don’t appear in packs that frequently.^{[3]
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- Rarity Symbol: 8-pointed rainbow star
- Example Cards: Wiglett, Eevee, Gyarados, Paldean Wooper
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Art Rare Even though Art Rare cards have the same text as their Common counterparts, they feature a multicolored border and an alternate illustration. Only a handful of cards get selected to have Art Rare variants, so they’re really desirable for your collection.^{[4]
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- Rarity Symbol: 1 star
- Example Cards: Houndoom, Sudowoodo, Lapras, Latios, Scizor, Ampharos
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Double Rare Double Rare cards tend to be EX Pokémon that have illustrations breaking out of the standard frame. Even though these cards are more common than others, there is a smaller chance you’ll pull them from a normal pack.
- Rarity Symbol: 4 diamonds
- Example Cards: Venusaur EX, Zapdos EX, Wigglytuff EX, Jumpluff EX, Raikou EX
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Promo Cards Promo cards are only released during limited-time events that run in Pokémon TCG Pocket. You usually earn promo cards by completing solo battle challenges, and they have different art and attacks than standard cards. Once an event ends, there’s no other way to get the cards, so make sure you collect them while you can!^{[5]
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- Rarity Symbol: no symbol
- Example Cards: Zoroark, Blissey EX, Cresselia EX, Rayquaza EX, Latias

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Odds of Pulling Rare Pokémon TCG Pocket Cards

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The odds vary depending on the booster pack. Each booster pack has a different number of cards, so the odds for getting rare cards fluctuate. To check the odds for specific expansions, click on Offering rates in the bottom-left of the screen.
- Crown Rare: ~0.053%
- Immersive Rare: ~0.88%
- Shiny Super Rare: ~0.33%
- Super Rare & Special Art Rare: ~0.16%
- Shiny: ~0.29%
- Art Rare: ~2.06%
- Double Rare: ~1.33%
- Rare: ~2.48%
- Uncommon: ~2.43%
- Common: ~2%
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You have a 0.05% chance of opening a god pack. God packs are special booster packs that only have cards that are Art Rare or higher. Every time you open a pack, there’s about a 1 in 2,000 shot it’ll be a god pack.^{[6]
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- The odds of getting each card rarity in a god pack are around 2-3%.

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How to Get Rare Cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket

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Open new booster packs daily. You get 2 booster packs per day, and new ones replenish every 12 hours. Keep consistently opening packs so you’re more likely to find rare cards.
- Spend Hourglasses to open packs sooner. Every Hourglass you spend shaves 1 hour off of your wait time.
- Even after new expansions releases, you can go back and choose old booster packs to complete your collection.
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Check Wonder Picks for rare cards you want. Wonder Picks give you a random card from a pack that someone else has opened. Check the Wonder Pick tab in the app to see if there are any rare cards available. Spend the Wonder Tokens listed, and pick a random card. If you’re lucky, it’ll be the rare one you want!^{[7]
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- Most Wonder Picks with rare cards cost between 2 and 4 Wonder Tokens.
- Wonder Pick tokens replenish every 12 hours, but you can spend Wonder Hourglasses to reduce your wait time.
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Spend pack points to buy a card you want. Each time you open a booster, you get 5 pack points for that expansion. Pack points let you buy individual cards so you don’t have to find them randomly in packs. Save up your pack points so you can buy the rare cards you’re missing.^{[8]
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- Crown Rare: 2,500 pack points
- Immersive Rare: 1,500 pack points
- Shiny Super Rare: 1,350 pack points
- Super Rare & Special Art Rare: 1,250 pack points
- Shiny: 1,000 pack points
- Art Rare: 400 pack points
- Double Rare: 500 pack points
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Trade Art Rare cards with friends. If your friend has cards that are Art Rare or lower, you can offer one of the cards in your collection as a trade. Trading usually costs Shinedust, and the price varies depending on which cards you’re sending and receiving.^{[9]
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- Go into the Community tab and select Trades.
- Select a friend from the list and choose which card you want to offer.
- If your friend accepts your trade, you’ll get a card back from them.
- You cannot trade Promo cards or anything rarer than Art Rare.
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Check for limited-time events for new promo cards. Limited-time events happen frequently in-game, so be sure to check back daily. Events may offer bonus Wonder Picks that have special cards, or they may add new solo battle challenges that unlock promo packs when you complete them.
- When a limited event ends, there’s no way to get the cards afterwards, so make sure you keep playing to get the cards you want.
The Mew EX Immersive Rare card only becomes available if you get all 151 original Pokémon from the Genetic Apex boosters. Once you collect cards for each Pokémon, you’ll receive the Immersive Mew EX as an in-game mission reward.^{[10]
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Are rare cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket worth anything?

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Cards from Pokémon TCG Pocket are completely digital and tied to your personal account, so there’s no way to sell them for money. If you have rare cards, show them off in a digital binder in the game or use them in battles so your friends can check them out.