might be a digital version of the physical cards, but it does plenty of things differently from its real-world counterpart.
Besides adding fun visual extras like Flair and simplifying many of the cards, the app also introduces one major difference in the booster packs.
In the real-world version of, booster packs from any one particular set all have the same cards within them. Even when there are different cover images for each pack, the chances of getting that set's cards are the same no matter which image is on the cover.
In this is not the case. Instead, each pack design in the game works similar to the way the different varitions of games work, with each version having a few Pokémon that are exclusive to that version.
There's some debate over whether the specific booster pack that players choose matters, but there's no doubt that the cover art of each pack does make a difference.