Ruling Baby Pokemon

Rare Candy
Choose 1 of your Basic Pokemon in play. If you have a Stage 1 or Stage 2 card that evolves from that Pokemon in your hand, put that card on the Basic Pokemon. (This counts as evolving that Pokemon.)
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Rare Candy calls for "a Stage 1 or Stage 2 card that evolves from that Pokemon". To satisfy that, you need a valid "evolves from" chain -- that needs to actually be printed on the cards involved.

So Empoleon "evolves from" Prinplup, which "evolves from" Piplup. So you can use Rare Candy on Piplup to go straight to Empoleon.

But Pokemon with Baby Evolution are different. Elekid's Baby Evolution lets you place Electabuzz on top of Elekid and "evolve" it. But what's missing? The "evolves from" part. Electabuzz doesn't "evolve from" Elekid. And since that is missing, you can't use Rare Candy to go from Elekid to Electabuzz, or anything higher.

Only normal evolutions can be done with Rare Candy, not special ones like Baby Evolution.
 
I never understood why there wasn't a special rule for Babies, letting them evolve with Candy. It eventually evolves, so, like, come on!
 
well lets put it this way, can a basic evolve into a basic?

baby = basic in terms of stage
baby != basic in terms of what the card says
 
George2FRESH said:
If you evolve Electabuzz from Elekid, can you then attach a DRE to him since he is now an evolved pokemon?
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yes because it is a evolved-basic
 
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