Recent content by treyh37

here's the ratio I tell new players at my league to use as starting point when building a deck 12 energy (only need more if its a deck that discards and can't retrieve the energy) 20 pokemon (depends on deck, can run a smaller amount when running a mostly Basics deck) 12 supporters (most of...

yes you can, as this ruling shows/implies the darkrai you just placed in the deck is a valid target (though you don't have to choose it).

guess this needs an update as they added Delinquent and Lusamine at the last minute.

from the compendium basically when you use propagation to put it back into your hand it goes from a known area (the discard) to an unknown area (your hand) and in an unknown area the game loses track of it and that its ability was used, so that propagation can be used multiple times in a turn...

for future reference official rulings questions should be asked under the "ask the rules team" forum, but this is an easy one to answer, Marshadow GX copies attacks of basics in discard pile, the Articuno you are copying has the attacks Chilling Sigh and Tri Edge, the Articuno text you are...

Xurkitree GX's attack Lightning GX states "your opponent reveals their hand. add a card you find there to their prize cards face down." Nihilego GX's attack Symbiont GX states "add the top two cards of your opponents deck to their prize cards" so my question after the card(s) are added would...

Since you wont be taking prizes you want rotom dex to reset your prizes if Durant is in them. Also some sort of stadium would be good, silent lab or altar of the sunne maybe.

yeah pretty sure that's a bug as other effects (verdant wind) shouldn't trigger tell the current effect (celebration wind) ends. order of operations is roughly play shaymin declare using celebration wind select energy you are moving and remove them from pokemon select new targets for each...

this is the wrong forum for this you want the "ask the rules team" for the 100% official response. but yes it's a reprint, while rare compared to trainers reprinted Pokémon do happen, to count as a reprint the stats hp/type/ability/attack/weak/res/retreat have to be the same. so as long as one...

an old school deck likely wouldn't fair well mostly because about 5 years ago at the start of the black/white block we got a lot of power creep. most pokemon have 20-50 more hp then base set version and attacks deal more damage too. it's part of the reason the expanded format that was added...

not sure how it differs in the UK but if you've done official prereleases before either you (the store) or the professor running the event should have gotten an email from pokemon or one of the areas distributors a while ago with instructions to sign up for the prerelease. at this point with...

think the last week of winter regionals has the same format as the first 2 weeks of spring regionals (not sure when in there generations became legal so that might be a change) so the top decks for that and states are a good indicator. if your regionals is the week of may 28 Fates Collide...

damage and damage counters are two separate mechanics one is damage and the other is an effect. bursting balloon is looking for damage and wouldn't be triggered by silent fear which places damage counters.

yeah since it has zero game impact I'd go with a warning too, unless I see them doing it consistently (ie local player doing it regularly or same mistake at big tournament and side event) then I'd up it to a Caution.

these should explain in more details but in short Swiss means you play X rounds, based on attendance, paired against people with roughly the same win/loss/tie record. Top cut means after the rounds of swiss the Top X players (highest wins, second highest wins, third, fourth etc) play in single...