- A Judging question -- a Pokemon that has 5 or 6 cards attached to it is on the table. A player throws a six sided dice and it lands half on the table and half sitting on this big stack of cards at about a 25 or 30 degree tilt. Is this similar to the "flat coin ruling where the coin flip counts even if it lands in the damage counter or half on cards. What do we do? An experienced player gently pushed the cards out from under the dice to see if they stayed put. Two new players started debating just where the dice actually landed -- under a lot of cards or just a few???
- Anything less then a 45 degree angle is fine.
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WotC Chat (2003-02-20)
- When both Active Pokemon are Asleep, who tries to wake up first?
- Umm, we have no idea why it would matter. Usually you do them at the same time. If for some future reason it would matter, then the player whose turn is next would flip first.
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WotC Chat (2002-11-21)
- When the text for a previously released card changes in a new set, how are the older cards played?
- You will need to start using the new text as soon as the set is released.
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WotC Chat (2002-09-05)
- Can you over pay retreat cost? I mean like if you wanted to get rid of a Darkness Energy from a free retreat pokemon, could you discard the darkness anyway when you retreat?
- No.
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WotC Chat (2001-08-09)
- Can people have more then one card in a sleeve, I have caught people trying to cheat this way. Will you get DQ'ed for it ?
- Having 2 cards in a sleeve counts as a marked card. There are rules and punishments for this infraction listed on the tournament floor rules.
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WotC Chat (2001-06-14)
- Is it allowable for a player in a tourney to refuse to let someone use their randomizer (coin)?
- Nope. This is done to keep players from gaining an edge with a possibly unbalnaced randomizer.
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WotC Chat (2001-01-11)
- When both active Pokémon are knocked out, who places a new active first?
- The player whose turn would be next.
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WotC Chat (2000-11-30)
- Certain attacks & powers (like Erika's Clefairy's Lunar Power attack, Koga's Kakuna's Emerge Pokémon Power, or TR Magikarp's Rapid Evolution attack), can break the standard "can't evolve turn 1 or the turn it was played" rule. You CAN play them on the first turn and you can sometimes even choose a Pokémon on your Bench that you just played this turn. To make it easier to understand, the standard evolution rules ("can't evolve turn 1 or the turn it was played") deal with the standard means of evolving; meaning taking the next Stage Pokémon from your hand and placing it on a Pokémon. Since these attacks and powers have you take a card from your deck and place it, they are NOT stopped by the standard evolution limits. This also falls under the term "played". Aerodactyl's Pokémon Power "Prehistoric Power" says No more Evolution cards can be played. The above attacks and powers would NOT be affected by this as those cards are not "played" (meaning played from your hand).
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WotC Chat (2000-11-30)