Shinedust in Pokemon TCG Pocket and Flair explained

Shinedust and Flair in Pokemon TCG Pocket is tied to the existing cosmetics system, and soon to incorporate trading too with later updates. Flair and Shinedust in PTCGP is a way to make use of duplicate cards that you collect, burning up additional copies of cards to add visual effects to the ones left over.

Below, I'll cover everything you need to understand in Pokemon TCG Pocket with regards to Shinedust and Flair, as well as how you can obtain both, and the costs involved in doing so. After all, what else are you going to use fifteen duplicates of Chimchar for?

Shinedust in Pokemon TCG Pocket explained

Shinedust is a resource used to buy Flair cosmetics for your cards, and soon to be implemented in the Pokemon TCG Pocket trading system. It's used up in either case, but Shinedust is something that most players are constantly earning through various methods. Speaking personally, I've never run low on the stuff.

If you want to know all the means of how to obtain Shinedust in Pokemon TCG Pocket, they're laid out below.

• Obtaining duplicate cards
• Completing certain missions and challenges
• Getting achievements
• As a side effect of Wonder Picks

Ultimately you'll get a constant dripfeed of Shinedust just through playing the game, but it's the achievements and missions that'll be the big supplies of the stuff.

Shinedust is used to obtain Flair for cards, but it has also been established that it will be folded into trading as a mechanic in a future update, replacing the Trade Tokens (which will be phased out).

How to get Flair effects in Pokemon TCG Pocket

To get a Flair Cosmetic for any card in Pokemon TCG Pocket, you need to do the following:

1. Obtain multiple duplicates of that card (the more common the card is, the more you'll need).
2. Obtain Shinedust as explained above.
3. Go into your card collection and select the card you want flair for, then press the "Obtain Items" button beneath it.
4. You'll be shown a list of the Flair effects you can obtain for it. The specific visual effects vary from card to card and are usually thematically appropriate to it. Some later Flairs have to be made available by unlocking earlier ones.
5. The Flair will require you to lose a certain amount of duplicate cards and Shinedust.
6. With the Flair for that card unlocked, you'll be able to apply that effect to that card when putting it in decks.

The costs involved in buying Flair vary depending on card rarity. Rarer cards require less duplicates to burn up, but they do require more Shinedust.

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