Problem with Torrential Pump and Sparkling Crystal
Wellspring Mask Ogerpon
Torrential Pump
When Sparkling Crystal is attached you can get the bonus of dealing 120 damage to a benched pokemon at the cost of only 2 energy instead of 3.
The attack itself cost 3 energy so that is obviously good with 2 energy plus Sparkling Crystal.
But the Torrential Pump text clearly states that it is 3 energy you can shuffle into your deck to do the ekstra damage to a benched pokemon. Not 2. So why is this possible??
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There will be a specific rule somewhere that states you do as much as possible unless stated otherwise. If it stated exactly three or if you can't do three you can't do this.
I think that doing as much as possible applies to trainer cards, like you can use prime catcher even if you have no pokemon on bench or sada even if you have less then 3 cards in deck.
I always wondered if you could play ultra ball even if you have no cards in deck as technically you have done the first part of the item card, but maybe there is a ruling around what counts as meeting the criteria of requirements somewhere
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its it's a translation thing I believe. The Japanese text allows for this interaction, and the rulings follow the Japanese version because otherwise you couldn't have big multilanguage tournaments.
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As A former judge back in the day if you can't meet the requirements of the card then you can't do it, so your Ultra Ball theory wouldn't work.
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The wording is what allows that interaction to work (by the ruling). The wording is “shuffle 3 energy” rather than “shuffle 3 energy cards”. The Sparkling Crystal enables the effect to cost 1 energy less, and you have to shuffle in two energy. Essentially the ruling is that “attack cost” includes the cost of the effect of an attack, unless you’re able to pay that cost with an energy card instead. So even Pikachu ex’s attack can be used for 2 energy. But if Ogerpon or Pikachu have 3 energy cards attached, those energy cards will be removed instead.
A similar principle even applies to cards like Mew ex. If it copies an attack that says “discard 3 fire energy” (but not explicitly stated as a condition to use the attack) then if Mew ex has no attached fire energy it does not have to discard any energy.
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