Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Town Volunteers, UPTO, and do as much as you can

NoPoke said:
TV reporter does not say upto 5 cards. It just says 5 cards. So given the current rulings is TV reporter no longer able to take 4 cards from the discard pile and put them into your deck if only 4 suitable cards are in the discard pile?
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You mean Town Volunteers?
 
Physics Squirrel said:
I'm pretty sure you can still use Town Volunteers for 4 if only 4 are there.
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This is correct, it's already been ruled so somwheres in Ask the Mastahs...2 lazee 2 dig it upz. O_O
 
Well, I can't find anything in ATM or CompEX about it, but I'm pretty sure the general rule is if you know you can't fulfil the obligations of a card fully (and it doesn't say up to), the card cannot be played.
 
Check the (original) Compendium:

== TOWN VOLUNTEERS (Aquapolis Expansion)

Q. Do you HAVE to pick out exactly 5 cards for Town Volunteers, or can it be UP to 5 or nothing at all?
A. Yup, it works like Time Capsule did. If you have 5 you MUST choose 5, if you have less than 5 you can still play it and choose all of what you do have. You can't CHOOSE to pull less than 5 if you have that many. (Jan 30, 2003 WotC Chat, Q743 & Q774)
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Which seems to be the wrong ruling.....
 
NoPoke said:
and the more recent one.....

this is the card text...

and Town Volunteers itself
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I don't think that applies to Town Volunteers, because with Energy Recycle System, you have an option to do either, but with Town Volunteers, your only option is to shuffle 5 cards into your deck.
 
== TOWN VOLUNTEERS (Aquapolis Expansion)

Q. Do you HAVE to pick out exactly 5 cards for Town Volunteers, or can it be UP to 5 or nothing at all?
A. Yup, it works like Time Capsule did. If you have 5 you MUST choose 5, if you have less than 5 you can still play it and choose all of what you do have. You can't CHOOSE to pull less than 5 if you have that many. (Jan 30, 2003 WotC Chat, Q743 & Q774)
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Here's the ruling from TC's Wizards archive. Town Volunteers wasn't in the Rules Compendium EX, so I don't think it's been overrulled.

[Sorry about the double post]
 
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