What is included in the Card Dex?
The Card Dex contains more than 3,000 supported Pokémon TCG Pocket cards, with an individual detail page in Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese.
Three ways to find a card
- Pack filter: show cards from a specific expansion.
- Rarity filter: narrow the catalogue from ◆1 through Crown.
- Name search: search using the current page language.
Filters can be combined.
What is on a card page?
Each page shows rarity, pack, type, and related cards. Eligible ◆1–◆4 cards include a direct link to the claim flow with the selected card carried over.
Every card page also carries a short card commentary that explains, based on the card’s rarity and pack, how to get it: whether it can be claimed free on CardWish, whether it goes through trade or points redemption, and roughly how hard it is to pull from packs. When you meet an unfamiliar card, the commentary tells you the next step at a glance. Further down, the page lists other cards of the same Pokémon and other cards from the same pack — handy for comparing versions or wandering deeper into the Dex.
Same name, several entries? Meet multi-artwork cards
Searching a card name will sometimes return two or three same-name entries — identical rarity, different illustration. This is the official multi-artwork design, and CardWish card pages label each entry “Version N” to tell them apart. They play identically in battle but count as separate collection entries; before claiming or trading, double-check which artwork you want (see Card Rarity Explained for the details).
Practical uses of the trilingual Dex
The three language versions of the Dex are more than interface translations — each carries that language’s own card names and card art, which opens up a few genuinely useful tricks: match a card name you saw in a foreign-language guide by switching to that language’s Dex (/dex for Traditional Chinese, /ja/dex for Japanese); confirm the exact card name in a friend’s language before claiming a card for them, so nothing gets picked by mistake; and if you collect cards in multiple languages, use the per-language Dex pages as cross-reference checklists. Every card page also shows its name in all three languages side by side.
Why are some card languages unavailable?
The Card Language menu lists only versions currently in stock. Inventory refreshes every five minutes; if a language is absent, select another version, return later, or choose another card.
Stock currently spans several language versions. Availability changes in real time and should not be interpreted as a language popularity ranking.
Checking claim status
Enter or select your Player ID on the claim page to see requests from the last 30 days, including queued, invitation sent, delivered, and failed states. Each request can also show the sending account name and an available failure reason.
See the complete claim guide for the full process.
How big is the card pool? Some real numbers
“Over three thousand cards” is abstract. Broken down, the Dex looks like this (as of 2026-09-04):
- 3,663 cards in total, spread across 53 packs and series.
- Once duplicate characters are collapsed, those cards represent 2,318 distinct Pokémon and characters.
- 883 of those characters have more than one card, and a single character can have as many as 6 different cards.
That last figure is exactly where the “multiple card artworks” situation comes from: when a name search returns several entries, you have not made a mistake — that character genuinely has several cards, possibly across different packs, different rarities, or the same rarity with different artwork. Stacking the pack filter on top of the rarity filter will usually pin down the one you want in two steps.
Rarity distribution: why the top tiers are so hard to complete
Before you reach for the rarity filter, it helps to know how many cards sit in each tier:
| Rarity | Cards | Rarity | Cards |
|---|---|---|---|
| ◆1 | 1,050 | ★1 | 275 |
| ◆2 | 796 | ★2 | 373 |
| ◆3 | 394 | Shiny 1 | 244 |
| ◆4 | 156 | Shiny 2 | 95 |
| ★3 | 32 | Crown | 37 |
A further 211 cards are promo-type. Notice how the diamond tiers narrow step by step from ◆1 to ◆4 (1,050 → 796 → 394 → 156), while ★3 and Crown together come to just 69 cards — under 2% of the whole pool. That is precisely why our rarity deep dive suggests putting diamond cards first and treating the top tiers as a long-term goal.
The Dex rarity filter maps directly onto these tiers, so combining it with the pack filter lets you answer “how many ◆4s from this set am I still missing?” in seconds.