![]() Sure, it’s a beta, so that’s understandable, but given importing your account to it means never being able to go back to the better version, it’s definitely information you’ll want to know. But PTCGL just seems a cluster of issues right now. Seemingly a butterfly farting near your wifi was enough for it to knock you back to the login screen, and its load times were…not impressive. It’s not like PTCGO was the world’s most reliable piece of software. Oh, and if you’re wondering how you can see the cards in your collection now, outside of deck building, you can only find them by…looking in the Shop? Yup, seriously. There’s also the bizarre decision to only allow you to bring over 59 of any basic Energy type. The same is true for each quarter of a Pokémon V-UNION card. This gets worse for ACE SPEC, Prism Star, and Pokémon Star cards, where you can only keep one of each. Instead, more than four of anything you have in your collection is just burned for zero compensation. When you import your account, it will only bring across a maximum of four of any card. Screenshot: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku It Limits How Many Cards It Imports, And Destroys The Rest But if you migrate first, there’s absolutely no way to extract this data from the old app. You can then copy this text into PTCGL’s Deck Editor, via the Create Deck – Import Deck menu options. You do this for every single deck, and then migrate your account to PTCGL. To do this, go to Deck Manager, then View Deck, then Export Deck, which you can save as a. ![]() In order to keep your own Battle Decks, you need to log in to PTCGO, and then export the text of your “deck lists” to a text file. And it’s not as if there’s an elegant solution for those who do know in advance. Having missed this detail, every hand-built deck I’ve made is now just gone forever. This is utterly mysterious, and frankly just damned stupid. While migrating your account to PTCGL brings across your card collection as well as some of your card boxes, sleeves and coins (although it’s not clear which won’t make it), and also acknowledges your pre- Sun & Moon cards (even though you currently can’t play them), it just won’t bother importing your personally created battle decks. You Have To Export Your Battle Decks Or They’re Lost You definitely want to go to Online and spend as many of them as you can before they’re lost. There’s apparently some sort of conversion to an amount of PTCGL’s Crystal currency, but it’s opaque, and the two currencies aren’t equivalent. Migrate to PTCGL and, well, you’ve lost them. Those who’ve been playing PTCGO for a while will inevitably have a teetering pile of Pokécoins they’ve won, with which packs of cards and decorative items could be bought. Then, when you do, you’ve moved from a relatively stable version of the game, to one that I’m surprised The Pokémon Company saw fit to release worldwide. It absolutely warns you this will happen when you opt in to migration, but it’s far too easy to miss just how serious the consequences of this are, and how much there is to lose. The major issue is, migrating your account into PTCGL means never, ever being able to log back into PTCGO. It’s just, well, I wouldn’t be switching just yet. In various betas for the last couple of years, and delayed from its intended release in 2021, it’s finally able for everyone to download today, while PTCGO remains available until the beta is over. The intention is that such improvement will come in the form of Pokémon TCG Live ( PTCGL). Struggling to maintain internet connections on tablet, and a clunky thing to handle on PC, it’s certainly fit-for-purpose, but there’s a lot of room for improvement. Pokémon TCG Online ( PTCGO) is undeniably a wobbly old piece of software. However, if you’re determined, then for goodness sakes, read on to find out what you must do first. However, as of today’s global beta release, given the bugs and issues we’ve experienced we’d strongly suggest you avoid it for now. Ultimately, the goal of Pokémon TCG Live is to replace the decade-old Pokémon TCG Online as the way to play the enormously popular card game over the internet.
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