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At league, player 1 wanted to use Phione's ability when one his opponent's benched Pokemon had stealthy hood attached. Two questions: 1. Is he allowed to use the abilitu since Phione is technically targeting the active Pokemon? 2. If allowed, can he switch the active with any benched Pokemon...

Dear Judges' Chamber Members, Similar to other actions, we had a dispute between two players at our league cup yesterday about whether an action could be taken back or not, namely retreating. Scenario: player 1 starts to move his active with a float stone attached and simultaneously has his...

Just to confirm, even though Garbador is a stage one Pokemon, can Fighting Fury Belt be attached as a tool to activate Garbatoxin? The assumption would be that Garbador would not get the +40 HP and 10 more damage from attacks but the tool card would still activate Garbatoxin since there is...

If you attach a plasma energy to Genesect EX, my assumption is that if you want to use Red Signal that you need to do so right away after attaching the energy and that if you do any action after attaching the energy (play a trainer, play a supporter, etc.) that you lose your ability to activate...

Could you please confirm what most of us know is true about Skyla (everyone didn't believe me at league): Skyla can search for any trainer card (supporter, item, or stadium) not just item card, correct? Thanks. jconti2818

If you attach an eviolite to an evolved Pokemon by mistake, my assumption is that unless your opponent lets you take it back, that you are essentially stuck and essentially have to leave it on the evolved Pokemon while it has no effect. Is this correct? Thanks. jconti2818

Here is the information about NJ States. For further information, check the Time Warp Comics and Games website, http://www.timewarpcomics.com/ , but note that the tournament will be held in a nearby hotel, not in the comic book store itself. Hope to see everyone there next Saturday! Thanks...

Dear Mike, A previous post alluded to "judge ball" but I couldn't find anything about "judge ball" in the official tournament rules. You can google "judge ball" and get a general idea of what it is but I was wondering two specific questions: 1. Can it only be used if requested by the...

At a recent tournament, a player claimed that if an attack or trainer called for more than one coin flip, then if the player chose to roll dice, that he/she would have to roll one die at a time (e.g., dual ball). When I tried to find this in the rule book, I couldn't find anything that...

Dear Rules Team, I have read and understand the Compendium update about Smeargle's Portrait and Engineer's Adjustment (i.e., the Smeargle user is not required to use Engineer's adjustment even if he/she has an energy because his hand is not public knowledge). Does this still apply if on the...

Dear forum, Note taking was common at yesterday's Battle Roads; in line with Drew's question (who brought up some good points), here are some questions and observations: 1. Some of the players copied the cards in the opponent's hands when using Looker's Investigation. As long as done in a...

Dear Forum, An odd Battle Roads judging question yesterday -- Professor Oak's New Theory states shuffle your hand into your deck and draw six new cards. If PONT itself is your only card, we understand that you get to draw six new cards but do you shuffle your deck first or just take the top 6...

Dear rules forum, I have seen and understand previous rulings on this question: Clarification please :) Mewtwo Lv. X vs Blaziken, luring flame switches a pokemon up. Since mewtwo is also switching is this an effect that would be avoided due to mewtwo's body? but players at our...

I assume because it involves use of a Pokepower that if you are the first player in the game and you start with Smeargle that you can use its Pokepower Portrait to play one of your opponent's Supporters although you can't play any of your own supporters from your hand. Correct? Thanks...

This came up at league today and since I think we are going to be seeing a lot of Drifblim UD at Battle Roads, I wanted to confirm the order of events: Drifblim uses the Take Away attack and both the Drifblim player and the opponent have benched Pokemon. The consesnus at league was that the...

Dear Forum Members, As people who may know me from my past posts, I am a huge Raichu fan and although I have never been able to make a tournament worthy Raichu dec, I don't plan to give up trying. Here is my deck list: Pokemon 16 4-3-1 Pikachu-Raichu Prime-Raichu Lv. X 2-2...

Dear Rules Team, I know you can use Stark Mountain to move a special energy like Multi or Rainbow from one Pokemon to another. But say that you have a Donphan and ERL in play and you move the Multi-Energy from Donphan to ERL via Stark Mountain. When that energy arrives on ERL does it have to...

Dear rules team, Shaymin Lv. X, Platinum #127 has a Pokebody (Revenge Seed); Shaymin, HGSS Unleashed #8 has a Pokepower (Celebration Wind). If Entei/Raikou legend were to use its Thunderfall attack against a Shaymin Lv. X leveled up in this manner would it do 80 damage to the Shaymin Lv. X. I...

Dear rules team, I just want to verify how I think Rainbow Energy would function in a Magnezone deck: 1. Rainbow Energy can be moved around with Magnezone Lv. X's Pokepower Electric Trans because when attached to other Pokemon, Rainbow Energy would represent either basic Metal or basic...

Dear Mike and NJ/NY Pokegym fans: Lissanne asked me to post the details for NJ states which was recently released by Time Warp Jim. NJ State Championships Saturday March 13th, 2010 The NJ State Championships will be held at: Crowne Plaza Hotel Fairfield 690 Route (US Hwy) 46 East...