The “Rayquaza ex Drop Event” in Pokémon TCG Pocket allows you to battle against computers for a chance to get a Rayquaza ex card and a handful of other promo cards.
The event — which started on Wednesday, April 30, and will run through Tuesday, May 13 — offers a chance to get promo cards like Rayquaza ex, Rayquaza, and Farfetch’d. The drop event is one of two events where players can currently earn a Rayquaza ex card, though if you’re looking for the full-art version, see our guide on how to get a free full-art Rayquaza ex.
This Pokémon TCG Pocket guide will go over all Rayquaza ex Drop Event promo cards and give you some ideas on the best cards to counter the Rayquaza ex decks you’ll be facing in the event.
All ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ promo cards list
There are five promo cards you can earn through the Rayquaza ex Drop Event. Here they all are:
How to get all ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’ cards
You earn cards by opening cards from Promo Pack A Series Vol. 7. These packs contain one promo card per pack and have a pink wrapper exterior. You earn them by completing the battles in the “Gible Drop Event.” One battle requires one token of Event Stamina, which recharges passively over time or can be replenished with Event Hourglass.
You aren’t guaranteed to win a promo pack for each battle challenge you win: The promo card packs are listed in the game as a “chance reward” for every single battle. However, in Polygon’s experience, we had a much higher chance of earning one from finishing battles on the “Expert” difficulty. In fact, it rewarded us with a promo pack every time we beat the bot on that level.
Best decks for the ‘Rayquaza ex Drop Event’
There are four difficulty levels in the Rayquaza ex Drop Event: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert. The deck-building advice below will set you up to tackle the Expert difficulty, so you can breeze through the easier difficulties using the advice below.
The decks in the Rayquaza ex Drop Event feature decks that use cards that are weak to lighting type attacks like Rayquaza and Greninja. As a result, you will want to focus on building lighting-type decks for this challenge.
