Last edited: Thursday, June 7th, 2001 (Added June 7th Rulings) xxxxxxxxx1xxxxxxxxx2xxxxxxxxx3xxxxxxxxx4xxxxxxxxx5xxxxxxxxx6xxxxxxxxx7xxxxxxxxx8 This edition of the Rulings Compendium includes: | | * June 7th 2001 WotC Online Rules Chat -- (*) -- xxxxxxxxx1xxxxxxxxx2xxxxxxxxx3xxxxxxxxx4xxxxxxxxx5xxxxxxxxx6xxxxxxxxx7xxxxxxxxx8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ERRATA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- == DOUBLE CLAW (Scizor - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. On the Neo Discovery Scizor, there is a misprint there, are you gonna errata it? A. It is played as on the wording, it is played as it is 20x not 20+. It's a misprint, just play it as though it says 20x for the damage. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q2 & Q27 & Q95 & Q140) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POKEMON POWERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- == ENERGY EVOLUTION (Eevee - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. For Neo Discovery Eevee, can you attach an energy and using its power (if heads) and evolve first turn? A. Sure. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q23) Q. Does Neo:Discovery Eevee's "Energy Evolution" Power get around Aerodactyl's "Prehistoric Power" and the normal rules of evolution (can't evolve on the turn played) due to the fact that you are pulling an evolution card from your deck, not your hand? A. Yes. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q55 & Q191) Q. What if I attach a Rainbow energy to Neo Discovery Eevee and flip heads on Energy Evolution? Can I treat that energy as any energy and then search my deck for an Eeveelution of any type? A. You may search for only one evolution for Eevee of your choice. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q36 & Q104 & Q126) == FROG SONG (Politoed - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. With Politoed's "Frog Song" power, does it do any damage if you get zero heads for the "Doubleslap" attack? The Frog Song text says "...that attack does 40 more damage (no matter how many heads you get)". A. No, you must get some damage to have the increased damage done. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q37) == GAZE (Igglybuff - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. If I have two Igglybuffs in play, is the Gaze power cumulative? In other words, can I shut down two of the opponent's Pokemon powers? A. Yes. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q193 & Q222) == REVIVE FOSSIL (Omanyte - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. RE: Omanyte's PP Revive Fossil: "Treat that card as a Basic Pokémon." If I use this power to lay down, say, Aerodactyl, does that mean it can only do 10 damage to Erika's Dratini? A. Correct, it will count has a basic for reasons like that. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q43) == SHAPESHIFT (Brock's Ninetales - Gym: Challenge Expansion) Q. Can you get back a Shapeshifted evo on Brock's Ninetales with Hyper Devolution Spray? A. No, because it's not considered evolving when you use Shapeshift. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q100) == SPIKES (Forretress - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. If you have multiple copies of Forretress out, is the "Spikes" Pokémon power cumulative? For example, if you had three out, would the Powers do 30 damage (10+10+10) if your opponent moved a benched Pokémon to the active slot? A. Yes, but they are all separate 10 damage... (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q52) Q. If your opponent has 3 Forretress in play, and you make active a Pokemon with 1 Metal energy attached, is all Spike damage prevented? (Is each Spike separate?) A. Yes each of the Forretress is a different source, so you would take 0 damage. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q14) Q. If I have 3 Forretress's in play & my opponent retreats for a baby pokemon it would still take the damage right? A. Correct. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q199) Q. When an opponent plays Switch then the new pokemon would not take any damage from my Forretress's in play correct? A. No, they still take damage, it doesn't say if they retreat, it just says if their pokemon becomes their active. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q202) Q. Your Ditto is opposite your opponent's Forretress. Your opponent does Rapid Spin. Will your Ditto do Spike damage? (I assume not, since Ditto stops being Forretress before Forretress is switched.) A. You are correct, ditto is switched first, so no spikes for him! (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q54) == WILD GROWTH (Meganium - Neo: Genesis Expansion) Q. Meganium doubles grass energy so if a rainbow energy counting as grass would be doubled, right? A. Yes, but only as grass energy. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q72) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- POKEMON ATTACKS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- == COUNTER (Wobbuffet - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. Kadabra vs. Wobbuffet: If Kadabra does Super Psy for 50 x 2 (weakness) = 100 damage, and if Wobbuffet flips heads because it Countered last turn, does it do 100 to Kadabra or 100 x 2 = 200 to Kadabra? A. It would do the 200, because it is a new attack, and then gets the weakness. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q45) Q. Sabrina's Gastly w/Fade Out vs. Wobbuffet. If I Fade Out, and Wobbuffet flips heads, does it do damage to my Sabrina's Gastly or my next active taking the Gastly's place? A. Wobuffet attacks Sabrina's Gastly back before the Sabrina's Gastly gets returned to the player's hand. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q53 & after-Q71) Q. If a Wobbuffet had a Focus Band and had used Counter and had 70 damage, then on your opponent's turn it got hit with 30 damage and Focus Band worked, would Wobbufet do 10 because that's how much it took or 30 because that's the amount it defended itself against? A. It would be 30. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q82) == CRUNCH (Houndoom - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. On neo 2 's Houndoom, does the Crunch effect go away if the defending pokemon is benched and then comes back? A. Correct the effect would go away. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q3) Q. If you use Houndoom's Crunch attack, and your opponent uses a self-damaging attack during their turn (while Crunch is in effect), a) will the self-damage be increased by 20? B) will you still get the +20 effect during your next turn if you do damage to that Pokémon? A. a) Yes. B)Yes. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q51) == FALSE SWIPE (Scizor - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. With Scizor's False Swipe attack, if the opponent only has 10 hp remaining, does that mean that you start with half of 10 (which is 5), round it *down* to the nearest 10, and it ends up with a net result of zero damage done to the opponent? A. Correct, if they only have 10 hp's you do nothing....absolutely nothing!!! (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q18) == PAINT (Smeargle - Promo) Q. Could Promo Smeargle's Paint attack affect a Mysterious Fossil or Clefairy Doll? A. Why bother? But yes it would work. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q46 & Q89) == PURSUIT (Umbreon - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. If a confused pokemon tries to retreat after an Umbreon attacks it with Pursuit, does it take the +10 damage from Pursuit regardless of whether the flip for confusion is heads or tails? Or does it not take the Pursuit damage if the confusion flip is tails? A. No, it will only take the pursuit damage if it actually retreats. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q38) == TUNNELING (Brock's Onix - Gym: Heroes Expansion) Q. Last week, you stated that Brock's Onix's Tunneling effect would not go away after benching. You gave Farfetch'd as an example of a similar card. Could you clarify why the effect does not go away (Farfetch'd mentions as long as it stays in play, while Brock's Onix only has the usual self-referencing rule)? (And how do we know which other cards do not lose their effects even when they self-reference themselves?) A. We were wrong about Brock's Onix first of all. The effect would go away. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q118) ***** PREVIOUS RULING: THIS ONE HAS SINCE BEEN OVERRULED; See Above ***** Q. With Brock's Onix, the rare one from Heroes, Tunneling says that it can't attack next turn. What if you retreat? Does the effect disappear like most others? A. This effect does NOT get removed when the Onix is benched. There are several cards like this (Farfetch'd for example). (May 31, 2001 WotC Chat, Q120) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TRAINER CARDS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- == DEVOLUTION SPRAY (Base Set) / HYPER DEVOLUTION SPRAY (Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. Hyper Devolution Spray says you cant evolve the same turn you devolve. So does this mean you can't evolve then devolve, vice versa, or both? A. It means that you can't play the devolution, and THEN evolve; you could evolve first, and then use the Hyper Dev. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q94) == FOSSIL EGG (Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. If you have multiple Fossil Eggs, you can get out several Aerodactyls on Turn 1, right? A. Sure. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q200) == GIOVANNI (Gym: Challenge Expansion) Q. Chaos Gym is in play. Opponent plays Giovanni, flips tails for Chaos. Can you use Giovanni (since it isn't "your turn")? A. No, you can't evolve, so you couldn't do anything with it. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q35) == SPROUT TOWER (Neo: Genesis Expansion) Q. If Sprout Tower & Unown-N (Normal) are both in play, is that a cumulative effect that reduces the damage done by colorless Pokemon by 60? (30+30) And what about self-damage, like Chansey's Double-Edge attack? A. The damage reduction is cumulative in both cases. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q21) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ENERGY CARDS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL GAMEPLAY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UNOWN CARDS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [CHRISBO NOTE : We have not decided whether to put the Unown stuff into its own separate section or not yet] == GENERAL INFORMATION Q. Can you have, for example, four Unown-A AND four Unown-E in a deck, or just four Unown period? A. Just 4 Unown [total]. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q19) Q. The Unowns with powers that reduce damage done by a particular 'type' of Pokémon (such as D, M or N), say "whenever a 'type' Pokémon damages 1 of your Pokémon..." Will the power reduce damage on multiple Pokémon during the same turn? An example would be an attack that could damage each of your Benched Pokémon. A. It protects all of your pokemon. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q29 & Q44 & Q66) Q. It's your turn and you have an Unown in play with a Power that reduces damage done by a particular type of Pokémon (such as D, M or N). Will that Power reduce self-damage or damage to your own bench by one of your own Pokémon of that type? Example - can I avoid bench damage from my Tyranitar's Trample attack if I have an Unown-D on my bench? A. That works... (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q42) == DARKNESS (Unown-D - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. With an Unown-D (Darkness) on the opponent's bench, if I try to use Umbreon's Feint Attack it will do zero damage, right? This is because the Unown-D cancels the 30 damage, and since no damage was done the extra benefits of Darkness Energies are ignored, right? A. Correct unless Unown D is the opponent's active P-mon. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q28) == FIND (Unown-F - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. OK, if you have Unown F, N, and D on your bench, and your active Ditto is copying an Unown I, could you use FIND? A. They would have to be on your bench. [Ed.Note: In other words "no, unless you also have an Unown-I on your own bench".] (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q120 & Q149) == METAL (Unown-M - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. On Unown D do you have to have Unown A R K with it? Same with Unown M do you have to have Unown E T A L with it? A. No, you don't have to have the others, in fact you couldn't even do Metal.... They have the effect on the card, if they say you need to spell something you need to; otherwise they are fine. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q129) == NORMAL (Unown-N - Neo: Discovery Expansion) Q. If Sprout Tower & Unown-N (Normal) are both in play, is that a cumulative effect that reduces the damage done by colorless Pokemon by 60? (30+30) And what about self-damage, like Chansey's Double-Edge attack? A. The damage reduction is cumulative in both cases. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q21) Q. Does Unown N prevent damage Chansey does to itself? A. If it's [Unown-N] on your bench. (Jun 7th, 2001 WotC Chat, Q34) xxxxxxxxx1xxxxxxxxx2xxxxxxxxx3xxxxxxxxx4xxxxxxxxx5xxxxxxxxx6xxxxxxxxx7xxxxxxxxx8