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  1. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Attacking With Mew EX's Versatile and 1x Attacks

    RE: Attacking with Mew EX versatile and 1x attacks You're correct that it would not be allowed as the attack States that "this pokémon" can't use that specific attack the following turn.
  2. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Toxicroak + Verbank City Gym

    Correct, it would be 5 damage counters between turns
  3. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Muscle Band and "Extra" Damage

    RE: Muscle band Q? No. It only adds 20 to the total damage done before weakness/resistance
  4. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Mulligan Card Draw Question

    RE: Mulligan Card Draw Question. Yes. It is not a mandatory action
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    Ruling Mew EX Versatile Ability

    Mew EX takes the damage without factoring in weakness to itself from the attack. To answer your second question, it all depends on what set the card is from.
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    Ruling P! Points Premiere Events Requirement

    The only event with a Play points requirement is nationals http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/pokemon-events/pokemon-tournaments/tcg-national-championships/
  7. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Mew EX Versatile Ability

    The answer to this question actually does need a scan of the wobuffet card. A scan is just an image of the card in question, which is available if you search on the left hand side of the pokebeach.com homepage.
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    Ruling Poison

    Example 1
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    Ruling Muscle band

    The benched pokémon only receives 30 as it's not the active pokémon
  10. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Aerodactyl [Dark Explorers]

    Yes, just like plus power used to increase recoil damage from zekrom' bolt strike, aerodactyl will also increase recoil damage. However, muscle band does not.
  11. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Mega Evolutions

    Correct, they only have access to their previous evolution's attacks if you have a celebi ex with the time recall ability in play. And yes, the mega evolutions are a valid target for evo soda.
  12. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Switching/Retreating

    You are only allowed to retreat once during your turn. But you can switch as often as you have cards for it.
  13. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Lily Pad Mew and Rock Guard

    Scans next time. And it wouldn't prevent the damage counters as it's an effect of the tool and not an attack from the evolved pokémon.
  14. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Chandelure EX attack

    Provide scans next time. Safeguard will prevent the adamant counters from being placed as it's wording States all effects of attacks including damage done by attacks from pokémon EX. However, hard charm gets bypassed in this scenario as it prevents damage done by attacks, placing damage...
  15. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling How many prizes are awarded in this situation?

    Zero. The base prizes are zero. In pokémon, when it says "more" there has to be a base amount of damage, or in this case - prizes. For example, you don't do damage when you junk hunt with sableye and have a dark Claw attached.
  16. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Two different Absol's wording questions

    Any card before black and white 1 that says the pokémon's name is only referring to itself. So keeping that in mind, the meaning on absol poké body is "As long as *this pokémon* is the only Pokémon you have in play, your opponent's Basic Pokémon can't attack
  17. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Heads/Tails when using Dice?

    The most common use is that heads is even while odds are tails.
  18. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Three card strategy wording question

    They both state the amount of energy attached, not the amount of energy cards attached.
  19. CarlosDuranJr

    Ruling Mewtwo LvX wording question

    It would not stop effects like call for family. Only effects of attacks done to the mewtwo lv X by un evolved pokémon
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