Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket received its Space Time Smackdown expansion yesterday, January 30, and players have expressed shock and heartbreak at one specific card's artwork that depicts a particularly brutal scene for Pokémon.

The Pokémon Company probably sees the circuitousness of Pocket ’s trading system as a clever way to make the game stickier. But compared to other tactics like Pocket ’s regular events built around battling, it feels somewhat predatory and like something that doesn’t offer much value to players.

This means that players actually won't be able to trade cards from the Space-Time Smackdown expansion when it launches, and will instead have to wait for that option. It also means that all the Pokemon TCG Pocket rarest cards can't be traded, so if you wanted somebody's gold Mewtwo ex, you won't get it.

You can use as many Pokémon Tool cards as you want per turn, but you can only use one Tool card per Pokémon. So if you attach a Rocky Helmet on a certain Pokémon, you can’t stack another card, like another Rocky Helmet or a Lum Berry on top of it. Once your Pokémon loses HP and is sent to the discard pile, so too will the Tool card.

Are you wondering what the strongest cards in the new Pokémon TCG Pocket set are? Look no further than this list of the best Space-Time Smackdown cards.

The update bringing trading to Pokémon TCG Pocket went live earlier today, and if you’re not seeing it yet that means you need to go to your app store of choice and manually force the update. After it installs,

The free and easy Pokémon TCG Pocket made me want to collect real cards - and the hostile community immediately made me give up that dream.

You can no longer choose to open booster packs from the launch-day expansion, Genetic Apex, directly from the home page. This guide will show you how to switch booster packs in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Switching which pack you open in Pokémon TCG Pocket is a matter of opening an extra menu.

Pokémon TCG Pocket's first major expansion, Space-Time Smackdown, is here and it's fantastic. Much more than just extra cards for the popular digital card game., the expansion establishes Pokémon TCG Pocket as a game I'll be returning to as long as the developers keep up the pace of new releases.