Inconsistency with search cards
So I've noticed that for some cards that involve searching your deck and/or retrieving something from the discard pile, some of them let you deliberately choose to immediately hit confirm without actually selecting cards, but others don't. For example, Adaman lets you search for 2 cards but does not allow you to hit confirm without selecting at least one card. But there are plenty of other cards such as the pokeballs that do allow you to just immediately hit confirm and shuffle the deck, and while I would be tempted to dismiss this as preventing a softlock if there are no valid cards......there's already a prompt for when there are no valid cards from other actions. And when it happens you can still hit confirm to close it out. So why don't search cards always allow this? Is it just because of the "any" criteria? But then why not have the same thing in place for other search cards as well?
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Yes, it's because of the "any" criteria. If you're searching your deck for a card of a specific category or name, you can intentionally fail it because your deck is private knowledge; your opponent can't prove that you have no targets (even if it's obvious that you don't). However, when searching for any card, your opponent knows how many cards you have in deck so you're not allowed to fail. This isn't a bug or inconsistency. It's just how Pokémon TCG rules have worked since the 90s.
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