The hardest pulls in paper this fall just became the hardest pulls on your phone as well. PokeBeach reported on October 28 that the three secret RGB Mew cards from 30th Celebration are part of the First Partners Special Pack in Pokémon TCG Pocket, and the Serebii card database for that pack tells the same story in its own list. The pack was sold as a 27 card set of first partner Pokémon. Its list actually runs to 30 entries, and the final three are all Mew.
A 27 card pack with three extra entries
Official material describes Special Pack First Partners as the debut of a new pack format. It runs from October 31 to December 26, it opens with a separate stamina that recovers once a week, and every pack guarantees one star rarity card. The cards shown for it are the first partner Pokémon from the nine regions, three starters per region for 27 in total. Serebii catalogues those 27 in order from Bulbasaur to Quaxly and then keeps going. Entries 28 and 29 and 30 in the SP1 numbering are each listed as Mew at 70 HP, which is exactly where a secret trio would sit in a set that was never supposed to list them.
What the Pocket versions change
The three cards keep the YOSHIROTTEN artwork from paper, with the red and green and blue elements cycled across the background and the Mew and the text from one version to the next. Their numbering in paper runs R and RGB and G and RGB and B and RGB, a nod to Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green and Pokémon Blue. CBR reports that the Pocket versions carry 10 more HP than the paper versions for 70 HP in total and that their attack costs have been altered, and the card images in the Serebii database back that up. Each Pocket Mew is a Basic Psychic type with a Psychic attack that starts at 30 and adds 20 more for each Energy attached to the opponent Active Pokémon, paid for with one Psychic Energy and one Colorless Energy.
Why collectors care about a digital copy
The paper trio was never announced. Collectors started pulling the cards from 30th Celebration packs after the September 16 launch and sharing them online, and the set checklist never listed them. That mystery is a large part of why the paper cards trade where they do. CBR puts current market prices for the physical RGB Mew cards at 3500 dollars to 4800 dollars, citing TCGPlayer listings. A digital version costs no one that kind of money, but it puts the same artwork in front of every Pocket player at the exact moment the paper version is at peak attention, and it does so only weeks after the paper debut. Pocket usually remixes much older cards, so a chase this fresh moving over this fast is unusual, as CBR also notes.
What to watch next
Our take is that the weekly stamina is the real gate here. A player gets roughly one First Partners pack a week across a window of about eight weeks, and each pack guarantees a star card without guaranteeing which one. PokeBeach and CBR both expect the Mew cards to be exceedingly rare in Pocket, and no pull rate has been published, so treat any exact odds you see this week as a claim rather than a fact. Watch the first week of pulls to learn how the trio is weighted against the 27 starters, and watch whether attention on the digital chase feeds back into demand for the paper cards or gives collectors a cheaper way to enjoy the art and leaves paper prices alone.