Most anniversary gifts in a card game are a single free pack and a thank you note. Pocket is doing something collectors should actually plan around. The game turned two on October 30 and its Second Anniversary Celebration Campaign carries two separate tickets and each one exchanges in the Shop for a booster pack guaranteed to include a two star rarity card. One ticket is a gift and the other is earned at 24 completed missions, and the order you chase them matters because the wider event calendar starts closing doors on November 12 while other parts of it run into January.
Two tickets and two different jobs
Pokemon says every player will receive one ticket free, and that ticket trades in at the Shop for a booster pack with a guaranteed two star card inside, and TheClick reports that the official announcement directs players to collect that free ticket from Gifts and spend it through Shop and Exchange. Game8 adds the second half of the picture. Players can receive two tickets in total for the Event Shop, one from logging in and another from clearing missions, and each ticket opens a Series A or Series B pack that contains a guaranteed two star rarity card. The earned ticket sits at the 24 mission milestone in the anniversary mission list, so a player who only checks Gifts will walk away with half of what the campaign actually offers.
What the mission track pays along the way
The mission list is built from three simple habits and it pays steadily for all of them. Fourteen days of logging in pay out four Deluxe Pack Mega boosters and four Deluxe Pack ex boosters and two Dual Fusion boosters plus Shinedust on the remaining days, per the Game8 mission table and TheClick reward summary. Collecting cards pays out Pack Hourglasses at thresholds from 70 cards up to 190 cards, and three of those thresholds carry the Gengar set that gives this campaign its face. Collect 80 cards for the Gengar coin and 100 cards for the Gengar card sleeves and 125 cards for the Gengar playmat, a set Game8 and TheClick both list the same way. Using Wonder Pick one to five times pays Pack Hourglasses at each step. None of it needs a Premium Pass, as TheClick notes, which makes the whole track a pure time investment.
The full calendar in the order collectors should work it
Nine events were announced alongside Dual Fusion and they do not deserve equal urgency. The PROMO Reissue Event 2026 closes first, running October 29 to November 12 on the United States Pacific calendar, and it brings back B Series promo cards through a Drop Event and a Wonder Pick Event with exchange tickets for a previously released promo card. Bonus Week follows on November 13 to November 20 and pays a booster pack for logging in every day, so a missed day in that week is a pack that does not come back. The Dual Fusion Emblem Event and Battle Rally Missions run November 5 to November 15 with emblems for wins and pack hourglasses and shinedust from missions. Promo Pack C Series Vol. 1 runs November 17 to December 1 through daily missions and random battles and Dual Fusion limited battles, where decks can only include cards from Dual Fusion and Promo Card Pack C Series Vol. 1 with some exceptions. Themed Promo Card Events run November 25 to December 25 with three themed promo cards arriving one mission set at a time each week. Ranked Match Season C1 runs November 30 to December 14 on the Shonen TCG calendar and pays an emblem based on final rank. Community Week runs December 5 to December 12 with trade hourglasses and pack hourglasses for trading and sharing. Handy Card Collection Missions are the long tail, running October 29 to January 26, 2027, and paying battle ready Trainer cards including Sabrina and Red, so they can wait while the November deadlines cannot.
Why the timing is the real story
Shonen TCG laid the nine windows side by side on November 1 and the crowded stretch jumps out. From December 5 to December 12 five events run at once, counting the anniversary campaign and Handy Card missions and themed promos and Ranked C1 and Community Week. A player who clears the anniversary ticket work and the PROMO Reissue drops in November arrives at that pileup with only the short events left to chase. The free hardware around the campaign helps too. Six Dual Fusion rental decks stay available until December 15 and a new elite deck waits in Gifts built around Mega Rayquaza ex and Dragonair and Gouging Fire, per Pokemon, so testing the new dual type cards costs nothing while the anniversary packs are landing. One caution belongs in plain sight. The United States Pacific calendar lists the campaign as October 29 to December 14 while the detailed United Kingdom schedule lists October 30 to December 15, and TheClick and Game8 both flag that regional split, so the countdown inside your own game is the deadline to trust.
What to watch next
Watch November 12 first, because the PROMO Reissue window is the only part of this celebration that can be lost for good in the next two weeks, and B Series promos that return once may not return on any schedule a collector can plan on. Watch Bonus Week next, because eight daily login packs is the largest single block of free product in the whole calendar. And watch which Series A and Series B packs players choose for their two guaranteed two star exchanges, because that choice is the one real decision in the campaign. A guaranteed rare card is only as good as the pack you spend it on, and with two tickets in hand every Pocket collector gets to make that call twice.