Ruling Energy Types

Kagennotsuki

Kagennotsuki

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This has been asked quite a bit - I've already been looking around - but the answers are mixed and inconsistent. Even looking through the Compendium I am unsure of what to do. So here's my question:

Regarding special energies such as Rainbow Energy, Double Rainbow Energy, Scramble Energy, etc., do they count as basics once they are in play? For example...

Would a RE automatically make Flygon's (SS) Rainbow Burn attack deal 90 damage? (110 damage counting basic Darkness and Metal?)
Since there are now basic Darkness and Metal energies, could the special versions of those energies boost Rainbow Burn?
Could a DRE on an active pokemon be poisoned by Muk's (SW) Poke-Body Toxic Sludge?

Be it yea or nay it seems to me the answers to all three of these questions should be the same. Perhaps even here I am wrong. Please, help me! I'm a Confused Little Neophyte!

Kagennotsuki o_O;;
 
Kagennotsuki said:
Could a DRE on an active pokemon be poisoned by Muk's (SW) Poke-Body Toxic Sludge?
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If I remember correctly, it should get poisoned.

"Poké-Body: Toxic Sludge
At the end of each player's turn, each of your opponent's Active Pokémon that has any [G] Energy attached to it is now Poisoned. If that Pokémon is already Poisoned, Toxic Sludge Poké-Body does nothing to that Pokémon."

SW Muk's Poké-Body does not specify that a Pokémon must have a Basic Energy Card, so in this case any card providing [G] energy will trigger the effect.
 
Hmm...well, now you make me want to look at all those examples in detail.

First, dsMizuki is correct on Muk. The Poke-Body does not specify Basic Energy only, so a Multi-type Energy providing Grass would count.

Second, Rainbow Burn:

Does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each type of Basic Energy card attached to Flygon.
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This specifically says Basic Energy. Special Energy does not count toward it, no matter what types it's providing.

That, in turn, answers your last question. Since Special Energy doesn't count for Rainbow Burn, it does 30.
 
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