I was wrong about Pokémon TCG Live economy

Back in the day, when Pokémon TCG Live was announced in 2021, I was worried that the economy would make it hard to keep building decks. In the older client, PTCG Online, you could trade cards but that was removed in Live and replaced with a much anticipated crafting where you can exchange in-game currency to purchase cards you wanted. My main worry was that you could not (and still can’t) decide to dust a card, ie. turn any card you want into credits to purchase other cards. You could only get the credits through in-game awards or when you added a fifth card into your collection. Anything beyond 4 cards gets dusted and turned into credits on a ratio that’s not great. 5 years later, I’m ready to admit I was completely wrong. To be fair, I play a lot but I stopped converting code cards from boosters into the game years ago. I’m currently at 314k of the purple currency (used for buying packs) and 433k in yellow currency (used to craft cards) and I have pretty much complete collections of…

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