Ruling Rare Candy
- Thread starter ttsapakos
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The Player going first in the game cannot use a Rare Candy as they are not allowed to play Supporters/Trainers on their first turn.
The Player going Second however may use Supporters and Trainers, so they may use a Rare Candy to evolve their Pokemon. But, if they use a Rare Candy on a Pokemon, they can't evolve that same Pokemon again.
So this would NOT be allowed:
Gabite > Rare Candy to Gabite > Evolve manually to Garchomp
When it says "This counts as evolving that Pokemon", this means that that evolution counts as your evolution for that Pokemon for that turn. (That's a lot of "that's" lol) So you may not be able to evolve a Pokemon twice in 1 turn.
The Player going Second however may use Supporters and Trainers, so they may use a Rare Candy to evolve their Pokemon. But, if they use a Rare Candy on a Pokemon, they can't evolve that same Pokemon again.
So this would NOT be allowed:
Gabite > Rare Candy to Gabite > Evolve manually to Garchomp
When it says "This counts as evolving that Pokemon", this means that that evolution counts as your evolution for that Pokemon for that turn. (That's a lot of "that's" lol) So you may not be able to evolve a Pokemon twice in 1 turn.
ttsapakos said:
Because it does not mean what you think it means.
"This counts as evolving" means it removes effects and Special Conditions, and that afterwards you can't evolve that Pokemon again on that same turn (since you can only evolve once per turn).
Effects of cards and powers, however, get to break the rules. As long as the card/power is a legal play, you do whatever it says, even if you couldn't take that action yourself normally. This is a general rule of virtually all CCGs -- if a card and the rules conflict, the card wins. (Pokemon has a couple exceptions to this, but this is not one of them.)
Edit: Awww, I got ninja'd by G2F
My last paragraph is still an important note, though.