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Like many players, I’ve been frustrated pulling cards from the limited-time pack that I’ve been chasing for ages, only to see those gaps remain in the sets they originally came from. Fans have been pretty vocal about this being a terrible move for Pokemon TCG Pocket, and it looks like DeNA has heard us loud and clear. On October 24th, the Pokemon TCG Pocket developer shared its plans to update the card dex. But that update is going to take a lot longer than you might expect.
Pokemon TCG Pocket Confirms Card Dex Update for “After Summer 2026”
Let’s start with the good news here. Pokemon TCG Pocket will be updating how cards that appear in multiple booster packs register. Once the new update arrives, a 4 Diamond rarity card from an older pack like Genetic Apex will register in both that original pack and newer special sets it might be included in. That means the Deluxe Pack: ex and other sets will no longer have fully separate card dexes.
Even better, these changes will apply retroactively. So, that Decidueye ex I finally pulled will one day correctly fill the slot in Celestial Guardians, not just Deluxe Pack: ex. But if you’re hoping to get that satisfaction before the limited-time boosters expire, that’s where the bad news comes in. This massive and much-needed quality-of-life improvement for Pokemon TCG Pocket isn’t coming this month. It’s not even coming this year. Instead, the changes are expected to arrive “after summer 2026.”
For many fans, this is a baffling timeline. On the surface, it doesn’t seem like a massive feature change, though the code involved could be more complex than it first appears. Pokemon TCG Pocket is currently gearing up for a massive anniversary update that’s bringing in quite a few big changes. So some fans are wondering why this one couldn’t be thrown in along with the other updates, or released sometime shortly after. But for whatever reason, the card dex update isn’t coming for several months.
