YSK: All star and crown rarity cards are simply alternate artworks of diamond rarity cards.

A lot of people have been complaining that the new trading mechanics only allows you to trade 1-star and lower cards. Apparently, that's useless.

But here's the thing: Every card, from a gameplay perspective, exists as a diamond rarity card. 1-star and up cards are just aesthetic changes. So from a gameplay perspective, trading should work perfectly fine for collecting cards on a free-to-play account.

It should also make getting immersive Mew, and similar missions, much easier.

EDIT: Wow, I really PO'd people with this.

You do realize if that you're only collecting cards, you can just download png's to your phone, right? I know that removes the 3D effect, but still! What's the point of making collecting easy on a phone-app, when it can be done in a few minutes using serebii.net?