Ruling Holon pokemon and rainbow energy

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Can you switch the type of a rainbow energy each turn? So can you have it be fire one turn and water the next?
 
It provides every type of energy, but only 1 at a time.

This means if attached to a Salamence Ex D. It is all types, but only one energy at a time.

SO Salamence Ex D has 1 energy on him, but it's all types.

Hope this clears it up.

~Aagron_92
 
What I was trying to say is you don't need to switch it.
It's all types of energy, but it only counts for one energy cost at a time.
 
That means that if you have something like a Crobat δ and you have a Rainbow, a Fire and a Grass, it'll have to be Metal seeing that it's the last one you don't have. But if you have Charizard δ, you have 2 Metals, a Lightning and a Rainbow, you'd have to discard it seeing that the Lightning is supplied and the Rainbow could be anything.

Did I miss something?
 
Well... no. It's not a matter of 'it could be' such a type for the purposes of attacking; it is ALL types, ALL the time.
 
So if some card had an attack with 2 fires and a Fighting, and it had 2 fires and a Rainbow, which requires a Fire to be discarded, would it count because it can't be a Fire otherwise the energy requirements aren't met?
 
Rainbow provides the Fighting cost. At the same time, it provides Fire, so you could discard it if the attack called for it.

This is why you discard all Rainbow-like Energy when using Charizard d's Metal Burn. If you had a Rainbow, two Metal, and a Grass attached, you could do Metal Burn because Rainbow provides the Lightning's cost. But since Rainbow provides Metal Energy, it would get discarded along with the real Metals when you performed the attack.
 
I'm thinking about it with alakazam star. So i can use a fire attack, then a water attack next turn if i have 3 rainbow on me, right?
 
Assuming the attacks you're using cost 3 Energy or less, then yes, that is correct.
 
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