Celestial Guardians countdown, release time and date in Pokémon TCG Pocket

The next big Pokémon TCG Pocket expansion is fast approaching with Pokémon from the Alola region ready to shake up the competitive meta and give casual trainers more cards to add to their collections, including the game's first trainer immersive rare. Celestial Guardians is the third major expansion in the game, following Genetic Apex and Space-Time Smackdown, and comes after the release of two smaller sets that have been pretty groundbreaking to the competitive scene themselves. With this set, though, trainers are going to be able to get cards like Rare Candy and other new strategies that'll likely give older decks a chance to shine again in ranked play. If you want to know exactly when this set is launching, though, we have you covered! Pokémon TCG Pocket Celestial Guardians release date and time https://twitter.com/PokemonTCGP/status/1915391521060253831 The Celestial Guardians set in Pokémon TCG Pocket will be released worldwide on April 30, though the exact timing will depend on your timezone, with it launching early morning in most places, but in parts of America, it might even launch in the evening of April 29 instead. With a global release, the set will be available to everyone simultaneously, and it’s expected to follow the same pattern as Space-Time Smackdown did in Jan. 2025. The release time is 12am CT/1am ET/6am GMT/4pm AEST. For those in PT, the set releases on April. 29th at 10pm. You can see a precise countdown to the release of Space-Time Smackdown below. [hurrytimer id="1060400"] There is no expected changes to the usual launch lineup, but for those who are Premium users of the game and plan to buy a lot of packs, it might be worth waiting a couple of days until May 1 to make the most of the new May 1 rewards and missions that drop the start of each month, so you aren't buying extra packs to get all the goodies. Outside of that, with two packs to pick from and over 100 cards to find, we can't wait to see what decks rise from this new expansion set and how the new cards affect older decks. Like we mentioned before, Rare Candy has the chance to make decks like Charizard ex see a resurgence, so long as there's a search card in the future to find the Rare Candy and the cards you need. Rare Candy was a surprise inclusion to see as well, considering it's a TCG-made card that's popular in the physical game, now moving over to digital. We can only wonder what other physical cards could get the digital treatment moving forward as the game seems to align more with the physical media. The post Celestial Guardians countdown, release time and date in Pokémon TCG Pocket appeared first on Destructoid.

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Celestial Guardians countdown, release time and date in Pokémon TCG Pocket

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The next big Pokémon TCG Pocket expansion is fast approaching with Pokémon from the Alola region ready to shake up the competitive meta and give casual trainers more cards to add to their collections, including the game's first trainer immersive rare.

Celestial Guardians is the third major expansion in the game, following Genetic Apex and Space-Time Smackdown, and comes after the release of two smaller sets that have been pretty groundbreaking to the competitive scene themselves. With this set, though, trainers are going to be able to get cards like Rare Candy and other new strategies that'll likely give older decks a chance to shine again in ranked play.

If you want to know exactly when this set is launching, though, we have you covered!

Pokémon TCG Pocket Celestial Guardians release date and time

https://twitter.com/PokemonTCGP/status/1915391521060253831

The Celestial Guardians set in Pokémon TCG Pocket will be released worldwide on April 30, though the exact timing will depend on your timezone, with it launching early morning in most places, but in parts of America, it might even launch in the evening of April 29 instead.

With a global release, the set will be available to everyone simultaneously, and it’s expected to follow the same pattern as Space-Time Smackdown did in Jan. 2025. The release time is 12am CT/1am ET/6am GMT/4pm AEST. For those in PT, the set releases on April. 29th at 10pm.

You can see a precise countdown to the release of Space-Time Smackdown below. [hurrytimer id="1060400"]

There is no expected changes to the usual launch lineup, but for those who are Premium users of the game and plan to buy a lot of packs, it might be worth waiting a couple of days until May 1 to make the most of the new May 1 rewards and missions that drop the start of each month, so you aren't buying extra packs to get all the goodies.

Outside of that, with two packs to pick from and over 100 cards to find, we can't wait to see what decks rise from this new expansion set and how the new cards affect older decks. Like we mentioned before, Rare Candy has the chance to make decks like Charizard ex see a resurgence, so long as there's a search card in the future to find the Rare Candy and the cards you need.

Rare Candy was a surprise inclusion to see as well, considering it's a TCG-made card that's popular in the physical game, now moving over to digital. We can only wonder what other physical cards could get the digital treatment moving forward as the game seems to align more with the physical media.

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