Professor Rowan: Shuffling in zero cards

[Chairman Kaga]

Professor Rowan
Choose 1 card in your hand and shuffle the rest of your cards into your deck. Then, draw 4 cards. (If this is the only card in your hand, you can't play this card.)

Questioning these answers from PokePop:

http://pokegym.net/forums/showthread.php?t=53143
http://pokegym.net/forums/showthread.php?t=62755

Why do you still shuffle? I could see it if it said "shuffle the rest of your hand", but it says "cards" instead. It's not the same as Oak's Research/Copycat, because they both say "shuffle your hand". This answer seems to conflict with rulings on cards like Quick Ball, where if there are no "other revealed cards", you don't shuffle. There is no "rest of your cards" in this case, so why shuffle?

Or is "rest of your hand" implied because of the initial choice? (Maybe we need another errata :lol





EDIT: Wow...I was totally joking about the errata. But a wise man that can read moonspeak told me this:

自分の手札を1枚選び、残りの手札をすべて山札にもどす。
From your own hand, choose one card and put the remaining cards into your deck.
その後、山札を切ってから、山札からカードを4枚 引く。
Then, after shuffling your deck, draw 4 cards.
（自分の手札がこのカード1枚だけなら、このカードは使えない。）
(If you have only this one card in your hand, you can't use this card.

The critical point in this is the form of the sentence. See? There is a period at the end of "...into your deck". So there is a pause. Then you shuffle your deck and then draw. So it separates the the part where you put cards into your deck and the shuffling, so the shuffling becomes mandatory and not dependable on the previous stage.

Makes sense to me. Certainly aligns with what our Japanese friend tells us about the FAQ page.

Perhaps first instincts are best, Pop :biggrin:

 

[PokePop]

I would say that I made a bad ruling.
Thanks for catching it.
You are correct. No shuffling should be done in these cases.