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Garchomp ex Hydro Lander cant select 0 energy

Garchomp ex Hydro Lander states "Attach up to 3 basic F energy from your discard to benched Pokemon in any way you like". If you have more than one energy in the discard the game allows you to click finish after attaching the first one, but the finish button doesn't appear until after you attach the first energy, forcing you to attach at least one energy. This makes a big difference when you want to preserve the energy in the discard because your board state does not need another one.

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  • DoubleCure
    DoubleCure Member Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited August 11 #2

    That's the rules regarding private/public knowledge actions… because the discard pile (and your bench) is public knowledge, you must do at least the bare minimum action, so in this case you must attach at least one energy from your discard pile if there's any.

    On the other hand just as an example, if the action was towards your hand, deck, or prize cards, because those are private knowledge (your opponent doesn't know) you wouldn't need to pick up any energy.

  • uncomonfossil
    uncomonfossil Member Posts: 185 ✭✭✭
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    I believe that by saying '"up to 3", you have to attach at least 1 energy if there is any in the discard pile. After that you can attach more energy or not as you prefer. So Live working correctly in this case.