Erratas Issued for “Paradox Rift” Minior and Venusaur & Snivy-GX!

[Water Pokémon Master]

Erratas are extremely rare, but two have just been issued by TPCi!

Both Minior and Venusaur and Snivy-GX say that when you attach Energy to them once per turn, they will perform a certain effect. But they should actually read “whenever,” meaning their effects can activate multiple times per turn.
Effective immediately, the cards must now be played as if they’re printed with this updated text:

During your turn, if this Pokémon is on your Bench, whenever you attach an Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon, you may switch it with your Active Pokémon.
During your turn, if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, whenever you...

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[TheRainmaker]

Should have changed it to "If" so they don't miss timing.

 

[Nuclear]

that’s actually significant too, in some scenarios that could make minior much more powerful.

 

[Grillmeister]

The most forgotten pokemon in the tcg gets remembered for one of the rarest things? Bet lol

 

[bbb888]

Why did it take them 5 years to errata Venusaur & Snivy?? Were they taking a massive Forest Dump? Lol

 

[Grim Thoughts]

Ok, but why…? Is something going on in Japanese Expanded or something??

 

[Oddish22]

Why did it take them 5 years to errata Venusaur & Snivy?? Were they taking a massive Forest Dump? Lol

Probably when they discussed the rule change for Minior (because Minior has been played competitively more recently) someone brought up that Venusar & Snivy have the same effect.

 

[NobodyBW]

Should have changed it to "If" so they don't miss timing.

Top Kek.

 

[Hukutus]

Was this originally a mistranslation and they only figured it now? It feels like a very minor thing as you wouldn’t really want to do either effect more than once anyway.

I guess for Venusaur & Snivy you could now use it to get rid of an effect on the active by benching it and then bringing it back.