Secondary Typings
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Time for a history lesson. And a rulings lesson. So... a Rulings History Lesson! XD
You can use a card that provides [R] Energy after it attaches because Pure Body reads the Energy Type while it is "in hand". When the card first came out there was a bad ruling from WotC (they were still in charge of the game outside of Japan at that time).
Here is the bad ruling:
Notice how the person doesn't ask the question, but basically answers it his or herself; that makes it really easy to get a wrong answer. I tried to appeal it but by this point, WotC didn't really care (they knew their license was going to expire soon and were rushing out the sets for which they still had the rights). Depending on the format, it can be hard to get a back-and-forth discussion and "bad rulings" happen, so I understand trying to explain why you think a ruling should go a certain way... I just recommend separating your own suggested answer from the question as much as possible.
The example given was wrong: Rainbow Energy counts as all Types after being attached, but the Pokémon Power in question doesn't check the Energy-Type until that point anyway. If what they said was true, Rainbow Energy could have been attached with a Pokémon Power like "Rain Dance" (...old school "Deluge") and it had long ago been ruled that it couldn't because it didn't count as [W] while in hand.
The correct ruling is
Which was my point as soon as I read the bad ruling. Not sure if PUI Rules Team just saw it on their own, if I was the one to re-ask (I think I was but... 2003 =P) or if someone else asked (I wasn't the only one that noticed the bad ruling). While this still didn't make the Pure Body cards "good", this made them "not bad". I recall using Suicune to hit Water Weakness in a few of my decks because Rainbow Energy made the cost a lot easier to manage. Suicune didn't discard its [W] Energy. At the time these cards came out, their HP and damage output were impressive on a Basic.
A similar thing happened with Articuno (SK) and its "Water Immunity", Moltres (SK) and its "Fire Immunity" and Zapdos (AQ) and its "Lightning Immunity" Poké-Bodies: Special Energy that don't count as [R] Type until after they are attached won't be blocked. I know this is a CaC exercise, but Burning Energy was confirmed in XY8 two days ago.
TL;DR: As long as there are Special Energy cards that provide [R] Energy only after being attached, Pure Body isn't crippling. When put on something likely to be splashed into an off-Type deck that meets [R] Energy requirements with a card like Rainbow Energy, it won't even matter.
I do like that Aegislash artwork and it's a pretty good card too. Water Barabacle is kind of cool too.
I think it would have been neat to see rock Diancie borrow Lucario's ability, to allow it to be both fairy and fighting. That would have worked well with its second attack as people would be more inclined to put wonder and strong energy on it, plus with the return of rainbow energy...the picture though, well I guess beggars can't be choosers or some such.
I think it would have been neat to see rock Diancie borrow Lucario's ability, to allow it to be both fairy and fighting. That would have worked well with its second attack as people would be more inclined to put wonder and strong energy on it, plus with the return of rainbow energy...the picture though, well I guess beggars can't be choosers or some such.