Erratas Issued for “Paradox Rift” Minior and Venusaur & Snivy-GX!

Erratas are extremely rare, but two have just been issued by TPCi!

Both Minior and Venusaur and Snivy-GX say that when you attach Energy to them once per turn, they will perform a certain effect. But they should actually read “whenever,” meaning their effects can activate multiple times per turn.

Effective immediately, the cards must now be played as if they’re printed with this updated text:

  • During your turn, if this Pokémon is on your Bench, whenever you attach an Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon, you may switch it with your Active Pokémon.
  • During your turn, if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, whenever you attach a [G] Energy card from your hand to it, you may switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon.

Minior released last year, so the announcement isn’t too late. Venusaur & Snivy GX released five years ago, but the errata also applies to it.

Why did it take them 5 years to errata Venusaur & Snivy?? Were they taking a massive Forest Dump? Lol 😆
Probably when they discussed the rule change for Minior (because Minior has been played competitively more recently) someone brought up that Venusar & Snivy have the same effect.
 
Was this originally a mistranslation and they only figured it now? It feels like a very minor thing as you wouldn’t really want to do either effect more than once anyway.

I guess for Venusaur & Snivy you could now use it to get rid of an effect on the active by benching it and then bringing it back.