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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.
Basics
We call Wonder Pick Screen the panel from which you can see all possible Wonder Picks.
Some Wonder Pick can include items instead of cards during events.
Cards of some rarities are not included in Wonder Picks (read below).
Apart from the standard Wonder Picks, there are other varieties that appear during events:
- Bonus Picks: You can try to obtain a Promo card or currency (like Event Shop Tickets, Wonder Hourglasses, etc.) without using any Wonder Stamina.
- Rare picks: You can try to get a rarer card from a selection of cards within an expansion.
- Chansey Picks: You can try to obtain exclusive Promo cards.
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 , a , a or a card won't be shared.
- A Rare Pack (sometimes called God Pack) can be shared as long as it doesn't contain any card of the aforementioned rarity.
- Any pack your friends opened before you added them isn't included.
- The content of packs containing 6 cards (Wisdom of Sea and Sky with Baby Pokémon) appear in Wonder Pick, but a card from the original booster opening is taken out of it to accomodate for the 5-card format of the Wonder Pick.
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.
Wonder Stamina: the currency for Wonder Picks
The currency used for Wonder Picking is the Wonder Stamina. 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 and Poké Gold, which reduces it by two hours. Both can only be used if they fully replenish at least 1 Wonder Stamina.
The amount of Wonder Stamina to spend for a Wonder Pick vary depending on the rarity of the rarest card (read below).
What are the probabilities to see a rare card in a Wonder Pick?
The chance for a pack to appear in a Wonder Pick depends on the rarity of the rarest card in that pack. The probabilities mimic the chance to open these same cards in a booster pack once we remove the Immersive and Crown cards from the equation.
There is however a big nuance: Special Art Rare (rainbow-bordered illustration card) and Super Rare (CGI full art) cards, although identical in terms of pack-opening probabilities, have separate rates when it comes to their chance to appear in a Wonder Pick.
| Rarity of the rarest card of the pack | Chance to see the pack in the Wonder Pick screen | Cost in Wonder Stamina |
|---|---|---|
| Uncommon | 75% | |
| Rare | 12.5% | |
| Double Rare | 4.5% | |
| Art Rare | 6.75% | |
| Special Art Rare | 0.875% | |
| Super Rare | 0.375% |
How to obtain Wonder Hourglasses?
Wonder Hourglasses can be used to recover Wonder Stamina at the rate of 1 Wonder Hourglass per hour.
They can be obtained in various ways:
- in the Shop: there are one-time and monthly refreshed offers to purchase Wonder Hourglasses at the rate of 3 Shop tickets per Wonder Hourglass (available 10 times) and 18 Shop tickets for 6 Wonder Hourglasses (available 10 times).
- in Missions: many types of missions give away Wonder Hourglasses as a reward: one-time rewards, Event missions...
- by leveling up: whenever you reach the next level, you're awarded 12 Wonder Hourglasses in the reward package.
Wonder Pick Screen mechanics
Every player has a unique Wonder Pick screen, initially made of 16 random packs from 16 random players. Once you start adding friends to your friend list, a maximum of 4 slots will be dedicated to your friends' packs. Friends will take a "friend slot" even if they're unfriended after or deleted 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.
Pack Timing and Expiration
Packs that join the board are assigned a random time between 30 minutes 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.
Improved Wonder Pick Feature: more chance for rare cards!
Starting from Mega Rising (B1), when you collect all rarities of a set, you now have more chances to see a 24 hour lasting Wonder Pick that includes at least 1 card (4 ).
Rewind Watch: Wonder Picking from an Expired Pack
Players can still pick from a pack in the Expired Queue by using a Rewind Watch in addition to the regular cost for this pack.
The only way to obtain a Rewind Watch is by leveling up : you obtain 1 Rewind Watch when you reach the next level. It means that you cannot accumulate more than 50 Rewind Watch currently. When you're out of Rewind Watch, you can use Poké Gold to replenish them.
It only works for Expired Packs: you cannot take another chance at Picking from a Pack that you already picked from with a Rewind Watch.
Bonus Pick (free)
Bonus Pick is a special kind of Wonder Pick that appears in some events. They mix items related to the events (Promotional cards, Event tickets...) and other cards and items (Wonder Hourglass, Shop tickets, Pack Hourglass...). They come at no cost.
Chansey Pick (paid)
Chansey pick is a special kind of Wonder Pick that appears in some events. There’s a notification on the Home screen when a Chansey Pick is available. They include promotional cards related to the event, and come with a fixed Wonder Stamina fee. There's a 2.5% chance for them to appear on each refresh.
Rare Picks (paid)
Rare Picks are special Wonder Picks that only appear in events, in which you can try to get rare cards from existing sets. They have a 1.2% chance to appear at each Wonder Pick screen refresh and they're highlighted in the front page.
