BODY: Every pack opening in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is a small gamble. For a limited window starting September 30, the house is handing out a guaranteed win.
The Pokémon Company announced on September 24 that "High Class Pack MEGA" (ハイクラスパック MEGA) will arrive in the smartphone card game at 10:00 a.m. JST on September 30 as a limited-time expansion. Each pack is guaranteed to contain a Pokémon ex — the four-diamond (◆◆◆◆) tier that sits at the top of the game's standard rarity ladder.
Rather than introducing new artwork, the set functions as a greatest-hits compilation. It reprints a large portion of the cards released across expansions from "Mega Rising" (メガライジング) through "Sky Ruler" (天空の支配者), and the announcement states it includes every four-diamond card from that run. For players who missed a specific ex during its original window — or who burned through their Pack Hourglasses chasing one and came up empty — it is a second shot at an entire era of the game at once.
The Japanese announcement did not spell out how long the pack will remain available beyond calling it period-limited, which is itself part of the design: scarcity is the pressure. Note that English-language set names in the global release may differ from the direct translations above.
The insider take
"High Class Pack" is not a neutral phrase in Japan. It is borrowed straight from the physical Pokémon TCG, where year-end premium sets like Shiny Treasure ex reliably sell out at Tokyo hobby shops and move at a markup on Mercari within hours. Attaching that label to a digital expansion is a deliberate signal to Japanese players that this is the prestige drop of the season. The other loaded word is 確定 — "guaranteed" — a term Japanese mobile gamers scrutinize closely after years of gacha-rate controversy and the 2012 regulatory crackdown on complete gacha. Pocket, co-developed with DeNA, runs on a daily ritual of two free packs, which means most players are sitting on stockpiled currency. A limited window with a guaranteed ex is the cleanest possible mechanism for converting that hoard into a spending spike — and the 10:00 a.m. JST start time is the standard Japanese mobile launch hour, timed for the morning commute.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).