Team Compendium is pleased to announce the latest editions of The Pokemon Trading Card Game Rulings Compendium, The Compendium BW. The features of the Compendium BW include: Streamlined rulings, pre-HGSS rulings removed, except those that are still relevant Updated existing rulings, applied to Abilities & Trainers as appropriate [with edited text in brackets] Updated links, [...]
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You can take notes on Time Walk
December 18, 2010 – 3:03 pm
The Tournament Rules on taking notes changed for this season. They are quoted below from section 7 of the Play! Pokemon Tournament Rules. Players are allowed to take notes during a game in respect to actions that have happened during the game. Players may take notes during a match and refer to those notes. Players [...]
For CC 2010 Playtesters – Insight, Space Virus and Legend Box.
November 20, 2010 – 10:14 pm
We have a few batches of questions where not all the questions have been answered. Mixed in among those batches are some answered questions relevant to Cities, that we’d like to publish here so that they get out there in time. Here they are in no particular order: Q. When Yanmega tries to attack, do [...]
For Battle Road Playtesters – Red Armor & Defender
September 14, 2010 – 10:33 pm
Here are some official rulings from TPCi Rules Team that we’d like to get out to all you Battle Road playtesters this week. Q. If Garchomp [C] Lv.X has Special Energy cards attached and discards all of them when using its “Dragon Rush” attack, can it do damage to a Scizor that has the “Red [...]
Updated rulings on GUARD, Looker’s Investigation, Conductivity
August 8, 2010 – 10:05 am
We wanted to provide a further heads-up on the new way to play bench swap attacks versus a protected active (and also, fyi Conductivity, confirmation on Looker). These rulings will be in effect for the World Championships 2010. The wording is not official yet, but we’ve been asked to get the word out. Here’s the [...]
PokeGym down, Compendium Up
May 9, 2010 – 8:39 am
During the PokeGym outage (there is an upgrade in progress), all the rulings are still available from the Compendium site (links at left) and the Compendium site will be up. You can follow the progress of the upgrade on the PokeGym Facebook page and also in the comments to this post.
Errata for two cards from Unleashed along with Lucky Egg
May 9, 2010 – 8:36 am
Three cards have been added to the list of errata for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Please note the three cards are receiving errata to address text changes. The text below reflects what the card should say, not what was originally printed. Additionally, we have added notes to help understand what has changed on the [...]
Image links in Compendium LvX Updated
January 16, 2010 – 9:36 pm
With many thanks to our friend Dave Christian (PokeGym Member – The Gorn) at pokepedia.net, we’ve finally used the file he gave us last summer and updated the database that creates the links from the Compendium rulings to the Researching Tower images. The result is a more complete reference when you want to look at [...]
A few notes while we wait…
October 29, 2009 – 8:01 pm
Yes, we’re waiting on some big post-Worlds rulings and also Arceus is about to hit the Compendium big time. Meawhile, here are two small notes. PDF Version. A couple months ago, we got the Acrobat version of the Compendium automated. It kicks in at midnight Pacific Time, or thereabouts. For fans of the PDF version, [...]
Buried Treasure – Rediscovering Lv.X Answers
April 12, 2009 – 12:14 pm
Now that the EX series cards, with their different meanings for the terms “Trainer” and “Basic Pokémon or Evolution card”, have been removed from the modified format allowed at Premier events, there are fewer posted questions about basic rules changes introduced by Diamond and Pearl. We premiere event players and Pokémon League members are now so used to the [...]
