Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket adds 233 cards and deck sharing

Ruler of the Skies has launched in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket as the game's B4 set, and all 233 cards are now accounted for. Mega Rayquaza ex is the headliner, which means Pocket is running the same cover Pokemon as the physical Storm Emeralda set in Japan — a deliberate alignment that keeps both games pointed at the same marketing beat.

Two systems changes ship with the set, and both are aimed at long-standing player complaints.

Deck sharing, finally

Pocket now has a deck sharing feature. Since launch, the standard way to copy a netdeck has been to read a screenshot card by card and rebuild it by hand — tedious in a game whose whole pitch is speed and convenience. Native sharing turns a five-minute chore into a tap.

The knock-on effect is on the metagame. Anything that lowers the friction of copying a top-performing list compresses the meta faster: strong decks propagate in hours instead of days, and off-meta decks lose the window in which they were quietly good. Expect the format to settle more quickly than previous sets did.

Higher rarity pulls

The set also introduces higher rarity pulls. Pocket's rarity ladder is the game's monetisation engine, and every set since launch has extended it upward. For free-to-play players this mostly changes the shape of the grind rather than its length; for spenders it adds a new ceiling to chase.

Why the Rayquaza double-up matters

Running Mega Rayquaza ex simultaneously in Pocket and in the Japanese physical set is the clearest example yet of The Pokemon Company treating the two products as one campaign. It concentrates search interest, social chatter and secondary-market attention on a single Pokemon in a single window.

The practical read for players: Rayquaza-adjacent cards in both games are being priced against peak attention right now. That is usually the worst moment to buy and the best moment to open.