Sadly didn't have too much time for other stuff during the month, but managed to make something with 4 hours left on the clock (it's pretty fun to do with a time constraint like that too).
References:
Celebi (XY93): Theta stop text
Machoke (GUR): Daunting Pose text
Garbodor (BKP): Garbotoxin...
Sure, but the ability is on the Raichu card, Raichu-BREAK retains the ability but "this Pokémon" is still Raichu and not Raichu-BREAK. Either that or it's because it retaining the abilities of previous evolutions doesn't happen until after you've played it, I'm not entirely sure which.
I've just noticed I've accidentally covered up the aschefield101 credit on the blank I used. Does the extension apply from the time of the post or from the deadline?
Inspiration
I've always liked the poison theme going on in Phantom Forces (on the Crobat, M/Gengar-EX etc.), and while looking down the list of Johto (& other allowed Pokémon) I thought it'd be neat to give something similar a go with a Pokémon I felt was a little underrated from Gen 2. Ariados...
Wasn't it predicted the 8 GXs would be the ultra beasts plus Silvally-GX because the numbers worked? Though with Kartana and I forget which the other one was neglected from the two collections, who knows.
Seems like Seviper will be the promo to hope for. Here's hoping I get Seviper and Zygarde as my staff promos for judging 2 pre-releases (Zygarde is gorgeous looking).
So long as the card is printed with the exact same Pokémon name, health, attack names, attack damage, attack subtext, weakness, resistance, retreat cost etc. you can use the older versions of the Pokémon.
I don't 100% understand how computer RNG works more than it being based on the time of a computer (or something to do with time and timers), however at a point where you (of course) cannot rig it.
I could be totally wrong in this as this is just in my experience, but I've found very often the...