Fossil card rules
So if fossil pokemon are considered Pokemon, then does your opponent take a prize card when they knock them out? And if they're pokemon, can you attach energies to them? Or tools? Why can't they retreat if they're Pokemon? Because I feel like I've been playing them wrong all these years.
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That’s a tricky question, because attaching energy and especially tools feels weird. But because the card says it’s a Pokémon, and doesn’t say you can’t attach energy or tools to it, you must be able to. They can’t retreat but in return you can discard them from play during your turn. Why can’t they retreat? They can’t move.
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But what about prize cards? Because the rules of pokemon say that if you knock out a pokemon, you take a prize card. But it is an item. but apparently it is a pokemon. I sort of wish The Pokémon Company would just stop reprinting fossils and make the things that evolve from them basics.
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@OlderAngel11 knocking out a fossil lets you draw a prize.
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I think its change a little bit each time it was used in an expansion. Some are pokemon and some are items so I would see the rules that were in place at the time of the card to see how it works.
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Glad this conversation is happening. Can we bench fossils with cards, like nest ball or battle pass VIP? Can we get them with a level ball? There’s nothing online that clearly defines these rules.
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Exactly! Thank you! The rules about the cards make no sense. They say they have sixty hp on the card, but does it only have that hp when you play it? I don't understand.
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Yes I have the same problem, it says, “play this card as if it were a…” which seems similar to the “while this energy is attached to a Pokémon, it provides…” in that it seems to still be an item and not a Pokémon (or in the case of special energy, doesn’t actually count as a certain type of energy in the discard, e.g. you can’t bring back Reversal with Gardy) until you play it (so it isn’t a Pokémon in the deck and is not nest ball searchable?)
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The way it says play this card like it is a basic pokemon makes it seem like it's not a pokemon unless it's in play, and once it's been played it's not a pokemon anymore. I don't know the official ruling, so I could be wrong about anything.
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