Ruling Can Anyone Clarify My Doubt?

[Blaziken Expert]

[/size][/quote]Hi Anyone

I saw soo many cards with an attack like
''flip a coin if heads, the defeanding pokemon is asleep/parals./psnd.''
''flip a coin if tails, your pokemon gets 10 damage''
''flip a coin if heads, discard an energy card (something like that)
from your pokemon''
and there will be an attack damage too. So how to play with cards like that? Can anyone EMail me the answer and post a reply also.

Thanks and Regards
Samvid ---------------- [email protected] ------------------

 

[StealthAngel667]

I'll just post a reply...if you don't mind.
The idea is that you'll have to flip a coin before doing anything else. (like the card says)
If I say base damage, it's the number next to the attack dealt to the Defending Poke's (your opponent's active) HP. But that's what every starter guide says, so yeah. xP
1st attack
-you flip tails: base damage(or, if absent, nothing at all)
-you flip heads: base damage + paralyze defending Poke
2nd attack:
-tails: base damage + 10 damage to self
-heads: just base damage
3d attack
-tails: just base damage
-heads: base damage + discard an energy ATTACHED to the Poke that is using this attack

 

[PMJ]

Damage listed to the right of any attack is called the base damage. This is the first number you use in determining how much damage is done, after you apply all relevant effects.

Let's say the base damage is 50.

All effects are done to the Defending Pokemon unless the attack says otherwise. In your first example, the effect is, "Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokemon is now Asleep/Paralyzed/Poisoned." So, you do as the attack says. Flip a coin. If you get heads, then the Defending Pokemon is affected by whatever status effect is listed on the card. If that's the only effect, you're done figuring out the base damage, so the end result is 50 damage to the Defending Pokemon and whatever status effect you got for flipping heads.

In your second example, the attack says for you to flip a coin. So you do. And if you get tails, your Pokemon takes 10 damage. The 50 base damage is still done to the Defending Pokemon. The only difference is, your guy takes 10 damage (as listed on the card) if you flip tails.

The third example works in the same way. You're still doing 50 damage to the Defending Pokemon - that's the base damage. In this example, you flip a coin (because the card tells you to). If heads, you have to discard an Energy attached to your Pokemon. The card will tell you which Pokemon to discard from, usually the one performing the attack. You're still doing 50 damage to the Defending Pokemon. The act of discarding an Energy (or not) is just an effect.