Recent content by Asclepius24

The post you quoted and responded to was highlighting the "before your attack" as an apparent contradiction to the Compendium ruling saying you could use it when brought into the Active position due to an attack. Nothing in your post suggested you were taking issue with the non-bolded text that...

I realize there's an Arcanine in my avatar, but... Text in italics is reminder text of general game rules, not a specific stipulation. "Before your attack" is almost always there for "once during your turn" as a clarification that "your turn" is "before your attack." In this case, this specific...

No worries, that's what we're here for :) Could you share numbers of staple Trainers that you have? How about Shaymin-EX and/or Hoopa-EX? That would help us help you.

Moved thread from Deck Garage because there wasn't a deck to discuss. It would help to know what kind of "staples" you have since things like VS Seeer, Trainers' Mail, Max Elixir, etc could be a big chunk of that $100 budget for a new deck.

Moving to Competitive Play as this is a discussion without a decklist.

Escape Rope targets both Active Pokemon. The player is the one who actually switches them, but the card essentially pushes the Actives to the Bench. Similarly, something like Enhanced Hammer also targets the Energy through the Pokemon, which is why Omega Barrier also blocks cards like that.

Moved to Competitive Play because this wasn't asking for feedback on a deck. The old Rainbow Energy cards that tell you to do "10 damage" are no longer legal in Standard and Expanded. The updated text tells you to "put 1 damage counter" on the Pokemon instead. This is a different mechanic and...

From the Compendium: Q. Altaria has a printed weakness to Lightning, but it also has the "Clear Humming" Ability which creates an effect that gives it no weakness. What happens if it is attacked by Zebstrika with the "Zap Zone" Ability which makes its attack's damage ignore effects on the...

PTCGO is a terrible source of rulings, in general. But yes, you can Acro Bike with one card in your deck. The one card you see must go into your hand.

The last Legendary Battle Decks and almost all of the premium decks in general that they've released have been Expanded - this makes older cards easier for new players to obtain for that format. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see these include Plasma Lugia and Rebirth Ho-oh.

No. Mystic Heart blocks effects done to Pokemon; Balloon Bomb targets your deck.

Crobat BREAK needs to be in play to have that Ability. By the time it's in play, it has already been played from your hand and does not trigger that effect. That's the way I think of it, at least. The official ruling is "no" via Japan.

I didn't particularly mind the yellow borders in the BW-XY series (and earlier) because it worked well enough with the overall template. I think the yellow looks bad with elements that were designed with a grey border in mind, especially the overlapping bits. TPCi changed the border for the...

I also strongly dislike the yellow borders. At this point I think it's more of a "brand identity" thing for them than counterfeiting or anything like that. It looks especially bad with the SM templates that still include the light grey below the picture and even overlapping the yellow border at...

Those Energy cards are beautiful, absolutely thrilled that they'll be accessible. Reminds me of the old days when I ended up with hundreds of extras...