>>56882962Accounts have certain “locked mons” that they won’t give you unless you pull like 100 packs, for me it was Charmeleon and Nidorina.
Look at pic related, these are all 2 diamond rarity cards from Charizard packs. I spent pack points to craft my first Charmeleon because I couldn’t pull one and I literally pulled like 4 different Charizards before I even had 1 Charmeleon. Then, it wouldn’t give me a second one until I went hard at opening Charizard packs.
They do this because the deck missions grant you more hourglasses to buy more packs and if there weren’t cards that were nigh impossible to get on your account, then you could probably complete most of the set for like 20 bucks.
Also, to counter that, the game straight up fed me Bulbasaur full arts and Venusaur EX’s right at the start, which I’m happy about, but my guess is they choose one starter per account and one of the pack mascots per account to load you up on. I pulled way more Charizards (which I don’t and won’t play) than mewtwos or pikachus, or even some less rare cards.
Unrelated, the way the odds work makes lower rarity cards actually more rare than the lower rarity cards. 2 star rarity cards seem to be the actual “rare” cards and crown gold and the pack promo video cards get handed out like candy.
