One player’s estimate of how many new players at local card events started through TCG Pocket

What this is

One player’s estimate of how many new players at local card events started through TCG Pocket: about 80%, told in a December 2025 interview.

How it’s built

1. Reported by Card Codex, a card-game site, interviewing a collector and competitive player: “about 80% of them told me they started through TCG Pocket first.”

What we assumed

• The estimate reflects what this person heard.No sample size, method or region is given; it is one person’s impression, not a survey.

Sanity check

It says nothing about what share of app players move to paper cards, only about the background of some newcomers this person met.

The value

• 80 percent (single-person estimate)

Where it comes from

The line in the source

I would say about 80% of them told me they started through TCG Pocket first.