Ruling Wild Growth (Sceptile GE) and Energy Based Attacks

pvtGramps

pvtGramps

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I had this rules question come up at league this past weekend, and I wanted some confirmation/answers on it.

A player I was against used Wild Growth from Sceptile GE to double the amount of energy provided by the energy attached to his pokemon, taking the total his energy on the table provided from 7 {g} to 14 {g}. He then attacked with Torterra PL's Green Blast attack (40+ 10 more for each {g} attached to all of your pokemon in play) for a total of 180 damage. (BTW, kudos to this kid who's a Junior for coming up with this!)

To my understanding, there is a difference between the words attached and provided in this game. Is 180 the correct damage for this attack? Furthermore, am I being too literal with my interpretation of the rules?

My argument against it being this high:

In pursuing the answer to this myself, I came across the ruling on Tangrowth GE's Power Whip (Errata: "Power Whip" attack should say, "This attack does 10 damage for each Energy from basic Energy cards attached to Tangrowth to that Pokemon."), which is then answered again inside the compendium to say that the attack as its worded now deals 20 damage if there is only 1 Grass energy attached.

My argument is that with Torterra's present wording, the best damage that the attack could do in the presented situation is 110, because the attack is checking for the energy attached, not energy provided, so that would only allow for +70 instead of +140.
 
Well, to my knoledge its like this;

1 grass energy card = 1 grass energy attachment.
1 card, 1 energy. Simple.

Now, we have Sceptile GE which doubles the "value" of each energy card.
1 card = 2 energy.

So every grass energy card is kinda like a double rainbow. In that it counts as 2 attachemnts, but is only 1 card.


Torterra's attack state:
"This attack does 40 damage plus 10 more damage for each grass energy attached to all of your pokemon."

If the attack read like this;

"This attack does 40 damage plus 10 more damage for each grass energy card attached to all of your pokemon."
-then the Sceptiles effect becomes N/A.

The key is "energy attached" and "energy card attached".



So 180 total damage is correct.
 
With Sceptile GE every grass energy card counts as 2 grass energy, so Torterra's attack would do 180 damage. Some attacks say that they do damage depending on every grass energy card attached to them, so Sceptile wouldn't affect those attacks since it is still one card. However Torterra's attack does 10 more damage for each grass energy period, so technically 20 damage per card with Sceptile GE.

Edit: Never mind, I got ninja'd...
 
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