Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Effects of Attacks

GenoFury

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Does "effects of attacks, excluding damage", such as the text on Unown G, prevent extra damage from attacks? Such as a Great Encounters Seviper attacking a pokemon with Unown G attached with its Poison Tail attack. If the Seviper gets a heads does it do 60 damage and no poison or 30 damage and no poison? Wouldn't the additional damage be the effect of the attack? Isn't the "excluding damage" text on the Unown G refering to the base damage of the attack?
 
It's damage, right? So since it's damage, it is excluded and gets done.

Many players confuse Damage and Base Damage with the big number printed to the right of the attack.
All that is, is how much is done to the Active before any modifications by attack text or other effects or Weakness and Resistance.

Damage is the final number, after all attack calculations are done, that is done to the Defending Pokemon.
 
No. Unown G prevents effects of attacks. Calculating damage (weakness, resistance, adding damage, ect.) are not effects.
 
No, the text on the card is instruction on how to calculate the final damage and is not an effect.

It is a very common missunderstanding of the term damage as used by pokemon.
 
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