The Pokemon Company announced a new feature for Ditto cards for thePokémon Trading Card Gameas part of the upcomingPokémon GOexpansion series. ThePokémon GOset was revealed earlier this year in March, marking the first collaboration between the beloved mobile game and thePokemon Trading Card Game.
Set for release this summer on Friday, July 1, thePokemon Goseries marks the final set of thePokemon Trading Card Game’s Sword and Shieldseries. The new series will only be available in booster format throughout Japan, but international players will have the ability to collect the new series through special collector sets and bundles.
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The new series, which goes by the nameTrading Card Game x GO, will feature several new cards specifically related to thePokemon Gomobile game, including PokeStops, commonly-seen Pokemon in the wild, and Trainer cards. In an announcement via the official Instagram account, thePokemon Trading Card Gamerevealed a look at some of the new cards, including the newly-announced Ditto feature. Players who find the Ditto icon located at the bottom of the card will be able to peel back the front to reveal the Pokemon is the Transformation Pokemon, Ditto. The video demonstrates that a simple Bidoof can be a Ditto in disguise, and it’s expected more basic Pokemon will share the unique trait in the series.
Pokemoncards have been a hot commodity since their inception in 1996, and the hype behind each new series grows in popularity upon launch. With the new Ditto feature, it’s expected these cards will be considered highly valuable, especially considering how fragile stickers can be. With how somePokemoncards can be worth upwards of $1,000, collectors can likely expect these exclusive Ditto cards to be a hot ticket and ones to hold onto, especially if their worth grows exponentially over time. With how some of the highest-valuable units are being sold for tens of thousands of dollars,Pokemoncards are considered by many to be a major investment.
It may be wise to stock up once the new series hits the market, as collectors and fans alike will likely be flocking to local card and gaming stores to pick up as many packs as possible. People who collect for the sole purpose of profit may want to hang on to this series, as it could re-sell for a large profit to the scale of aPokemon Trading Cardbooster box selling for half a million. The Pokemon Company’s most-recent announcement of the Ditto feature also included Pokemon such as Bidoof, Bibarel, Melmetal VMAX, and the Legendary Birds — Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres — in their first-generation form.
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