Wonder Pick is one of the core features of Pokémon TCG Pocket. It allows players to select one card at random from a booster pack opened by another player, offering a chance to get an extra copy of one of the cards from that pack for free. Players can choose which player’s pack to pick from, depending on its contents. Once selected, the cards in the chosen pack are shuffled face down, and the player draws one at random.
Many questions arose about this system: Is it possible to use Wonder Pick from every pack? Can we strategize to pick from the pack we want?… Here are the findings from our investigations.
Wonder Pick Board mechanics
We call Wonder Pick Board the panel from which you can see all possible Wonder Picks.
Every player has a unique Wonder Pick board, initially made of 16 random packs from 16 random players. Once you start adding friends to your friend list, a total of 4 slots will be dedicated to your friends’ packs. Friends will take a “friend slot” even if they’re unfriended after or delete their account, until their pack expires.
The Wonder Pick Board not only displays the current packs available to pick from, but also Expired packs (those you missed while they were on your board) and Already Picked packs (packs you’ve previously picked from). Your board can hold up to 4 expired packs.
Wonder Pick: Costs and Currencies
The currency used for Wonder Picking is Wonder Stamina. Pack cost in Wonder Stamina adjusts in accordance with the rarest card in the pack:
- 1 for ◊◊
- 2 for ◊◊◊
- 3 for ◊◊◊◊ and ☆
- 4 for ☆☆
1 Wonder Stamina recharges naturally every 12 hours, with a maximum capacity of 5 at any given time. You can recover Wonder Stamina by using a Wonder Hourglass, which reduces the waiting time by one hour. However, Wonder Hourglasses can only be used if they fully replenish at least 1 Wonder Stamina.
Which Packs are Shared in the Wonder Pick?
Players have a hidden “Pack Board” that saves previous packs they pulled to share them with friends and randomized strangers. Some of the most important rules about which pack cannot be in the player’s “board”:
- Packs containing a ☆☆ card have some additional restriction(s) on how they’re shared; these details are as of yet not well understood.
- Packs containing a ☆☆☆ or a ♕ card won’t be shared.
- A “God Pack” can be shared as long as it doesn’t contain any ☆☆☆ or ♕ card.
Information about the content of the Pack Board is currently scarce. Its depth is unknown: we suppose it takes around the last dozen packs opened by the player and its management is unknown. It is uncertain whether every pack a player opens joins the Pack Board or not.
Packs are NOT removed from the Pack Board once shared; the same pack can be sent to multiple friends, and different packs can be shared simultaneously.
Packs shared have no regard for how recently they have been opened; so far, we’ve confirmed 3-day-old packs can still be shared.
Pack Timing and Expiration
Packs that join the board are assigned a random time between 1 and 4 hours in increments of 30 minutes before they expire. This time is randomly generated and completely unrelated to how recently the pack was opened.
The Expired Queue will permanently kick from your Wonder Pick Board the oldest pack that has joined it.
The Already Picked packs don’t grant any additional slots but instead acts like a “tag” to packs in your board. Already Picked packs still have their timer ticking down internally, joining the expired queue when it reaches zero.
A big thanks to k-bi from the Discord for these amazing insights.
