Can a card technically be burned,confused,poisoned,asleep and paralyzed or any variation of these? Sorry if this is a basic question I've just been looking at a deck idea and if you can only have a certain amount of status conditions on a pokemon it would break the deck somewhat.
Ruling Quick question about status
- Thread starter Brendan
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Only the active Pokemon can be affected by a status condition. It is possible to have a Pokemon be effected by burn, poison, and one of the other conditions at one time, but they cannot be in any way be asleep, paralyzed, or confused simultaneously -those 3 conditions cannot stack. You can use a poison and a burn marker to indicate those things, so they stand separate. When you sleep, paralyze, or confuse, the Pokemon card must be rotated a certain way to indicate that status, and you can only have it rotated one one way. If a Pokemon is affected by one of those 3, and an attack or effect does another, the new affect takes place of the old one.
A simple way to think of it:
When a Pokemon is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed, you rotate the card a certain way. Can you put one card in two rotations at the same time? No, you can't. Sleep/confusion/paralysis override each other, with the new condition replacing the old one.
But there's nothing stopping you from putting multiple markers on a Pokemon, so poison and burn can co-exist with other status conditions as well.
At most, a Pokemon can be affected by 3 status conditions: poison, burn, and one of the others.
When a Pokemon is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed, you rotate the card a certain way. Can you put one card in two rotations at the same time? No, you can't. Sleep/confusion/paralysis override each other, with the new condition replacing the old one.
But there's nothing stopping you from putting multiple markers on a Pokemon, so poison and burn can co-exist with other status conditions as well.
At most, a Pokemon can be affected by 3 status conditions: poison, burn, and one of the others.