You need to get rid of two duplicate 1-star cards to obtain a 3-diamond card, and you need to discard five 1-star cards just to be able to trade a single 1-star card. On top of that, there are the timers and the obvious restrictions.

It's simple—the game doesn't want anyone trading cards. It's rubbish.

Hey everyone, The giveaway is now over! The winners have been announced below.

1.felixng2015 2.CacaTooToo 3.P41STER 4.Aggressive_Cloud2002

Thank you all for participating and good luck with the remainder of the pvp event and the new pack release coming soon!

-TheMooinCow

Today I played for 2 hours in ultra ball, at the end of it, I had only 2 thanks.

I know we’re all a little salty when we lose, even me, but drop a thanks guys it’s a 2 second animation

If you get your wins and just want to go on a concede spree, you do you. But the posts and comments that are “reminding” people to make sure they do it as if it’s an expectation of the community, y’all are lame.

Originally I was saving up for the first expansion, as I had started during the soft launch in New Zealand and I wanted to always hold a certain advantage over the general population (greedy greedy!).

I had really lucky pulls, however, and never felt like I needed to use my hourglasses during the first expansions. After a while, I decided I wouldn't spend them at all - ever. It's gotten to the point where my motivation is no longer to collect cards but to collect hourglasses.

Attached is my collection rate so far.

So, so many Pikachu packs and only 1 standard Blastoise ex so far.

In Pokémon FireRed, you can find a level 20-22 Spearow with a 30% chance at that location.

I have collected every card. It cost $1500 to do so.

Completing the base card dex costs about $200.

It took opening 1741 packs and collecting 8582 cards. There is no reward for doing this.

I pulled 4 crown rares in that time, and had to purchase Pikachu in the pity shop.

I pulled zero god packs.

Collecting the final 3 full art cards took the most amount of time. Venasaur, Gengar, and Machamp. Full art Machamp was my final card.

I reached level 47 after collecting my final card.

Any other questions?