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Was there a Toedscruel in play on your opponent's side? Card Text: Ability — Slime Mold Colony Cards in your opponent's discard pile can't be put into their hand by an effect of your opponent's Abilities or Trainer cards.

I just ran into this AGAIN this morning. So frustrating. And it's not like it's an obscure case. Gardevoir ex is a meta deck, and Pokemon recovery is a central mechanic of the game. It's especially bad because, as others have said, it only comes up at pivotal moments: you've just made a tricky play where you found a way to…

I haven't seen choice belt dealing extra damage to ex Pokemon.. are you sure there wasn't some other interaction happening?

I mean, yes? I play a few games every day and almost never run into any catastrophic bugs. It could certainly be improved--lots!--but no, it's far from unplayable.

The developers accidentally implemented half of the standard rotation early. All the cards you mentioned are part of the D block, which will be rotating out of standard in three weeks. Live was meant to rotate today, with the release of Scarlet and Violet. It's pretty dumb.

That is false. You don't get the energies from Generations or Evolutions.. which is to say, the ones that would be worth buying. (You also can't exchange for additional copies of League Promo holo energies, which is also sad but maybe slightly more understandable?)

Yup, and that's been true for a while... probably for ever!

Yes!! So much this. Especially because of how clumsy it is to choose different arts. If deck import auto populated an art that you only have three of it looks the same as it would if you have no copies of the card, and it is very cumbersome to remove the copy you don't have and replace it with a version that's in your…

It's working as intended, because of the precise wording on the cards. I posted a longer explanation but it was held up in moderation.

TechHog, thanks for doing these tests and for the post! This matches my experience as well. Seems like something the devs and actual testers should be aware of... If they learn about it from your post and make changes, you'll be a hero for the ages!