Good news! You can finally trade cards with friends in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Bad news! It sucks. It feels even more limited and backwards than when it was originally teased, and fans are in full revolt over the long-anticipated feature’s completely bungled rollout.

Pokémon TCG Pocket's first major expansion, Space-Time Smackdown, is here and it's fantastic. Much more than just extra cards for the popular digital card game., the expansion establishes Pokémon TCG Pocket as a game I'll be returning to as long as the developers keep up the pace of new releases.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket received its Space Time Smackdown expansion yesterday, January 30, and players have expressed shock and heartbreak at one specific card's artwork that depicts a particularly brutal scene for Pokémon.

You can use as many Pokémon Tool cards as you want per turn, but you can only use one Tool card per Pokémon. So if you attach a Rocky Helmet on a certain Pokémon, you can’t stack another card, like another Rocky Helmet or a Lum Berry on top of it. Once your Pokémon loses HP and is sent to the discard pile, so too will the Tool card.

The Pokémon Company probably sees the circuitousness of Pocket ’s trading system as a clever way to make the game stickier. But compared to other tactics like Pocket ’s regular events built around battling, it feels somewhat predatory and like something that doesn’t offer much value to players.

This means that players actually won't be able to trade cards from the Space-Time Smackdown expansion when it launches, and will instead have to wait for that option. It also means that all the Pokemon TCG Pocket rarest cards can't be traded, so if you wanted somebody's gold Mewtwo ex, you won't get it.

Pokémon card art is always fantastic, but my god, Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket’s latest line of full-art cards is particularly exceptional. The “Space-Time Smackdown” set will be released on the app on January 30,

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket has launched its anticipated new trading update, but it has generated increased disappointment rather than satisfaction. The launch of the trading feature in the Pokemon TCG angered players beyond their initial disappointment from learning the update one week ago.