Oh, the acronym pops up in other card game circles too, whether or not those games have any history of an official card creation contest. All it takes is a community member that isn't quite satisfied with a particular archetype's competitive standing, or a community member that would really like...
What a polarizing set of reveals.
Colress's Tenacity is a certified banger, offering the format its most convenient method of reaching Stadiums and Special Energy yet. But playing it (or the more obvious Colress's Experiment) puts you at risk of being obliterated by this Kyurem that reads like...
Attacks or abilities a card has are the ones printed on it, and only the ones printed on it.
Attacks or abilities a card can use include both the ones printed on it as well as the ones printed on other cards, such as the TM or Seal Stone Tools.
The reason we're even having any confusion about...
It's pretty clear about what it does. It does not allow an attack effect from an opponent's basic Pokémon to place damage counters on your benched Pokémon.
As usual, raw damage is not an effect, so it won't block the likes of Scream Tail or Zapdos ex.
I might be the only person in the world who's excited to see Future Booster Energy fixing a long-standing translation error that English cards have had.
"attacks a Pokémon uses" are not the same as "attacks belonging to a Pokémon"; Lost Origin Cramorant is an example of a card that has the...
I'm kinda floored seeing how good these starter sets are after the abysmal quality of the ex start decks, and they aren't even being released that far apart from one another... what gives?
Paradoxes could be pushed, sure, but I don't think there's any obligation for the cards to be Basic. If they were a category of their own, they could easily be regulated in terms of speed. They could also be regulated in terms of impact by requiring other cards to function. Just spitballing...