I think I found a ruling that might help with the rare candy ruling.
Hmmm, interesting.Pokemon Chat Report - Thursday, November 30, 2000
by Ka-Lok Fung - Scrye Contributing Editor
Contributions by CHRISBO of Team Compendium
master_trainer_mike says, "Erika's Clefairy has an attack called Lunar Power, that has you flip a coin, If heads, search your deck for a card that evolves from 1 of your Benched Pokemon and put that card on that Pokemon. (This counts as evolving that Pokemon.) You CAN play this attack on the first turn and you can even choose a Pokemon on your Bench that you just played this turn. This attack (like Koga's Kakuna's Emerge Pokemon Power or TR Magikarp's Rapid Evolution attack) all break the standard "can't evolve turn 1 or the turn it was played" rule."
master_trainer_mike says, "To make it easier to understand, the standard evolution rules (Can't evolve turn 1 or the turn it was played) deal with the standard means of evolving; meaning taking the next Stage Pokemon from your hand and placing it on a Pokemon. Since these attacks and powers have you take a card from your deck and place it, they are NOT stopped by the standard evolution limits. This also falls under the term "played". Aerodactyl's Pokemon Power "Prehistoric Power" says No more Evolution cards can be played. The above attacks and powers would NOT be affected by this as those cards are not "played" (meaning played from your hand)."