for those who uses Bianca, bicycle, and Electrode ability.

[rareball]

Lets say you have Bianca and a catcher in your hand. You want to get rid of the catcher so you can draw more cards, but you can't since there is no benched Pokemon on you opponent side. So, you keep the catcher and draw the number of the remaining card. This is a straight forward scenario. What bugs me the most is this scenario. You have Bianca and 1 team plasma ball and enough space to bench Pokemons. You say ok I will search for a plasma ball, but you don't draw any. You just try to get rid of it so you draw 6 cards from Bianca. In the next few turns, a plasma pokemon appears from your turn draw. Pokemon OTCG makes you get rid all of your level ball, heavy ball,plasma ball in the same turn even though that aren't any pokemon in your deck. Or you could just use level ball search your deck and cancel by hitting the X button. What is the situation here? Is this cheating? I only follow OTCG rules

[AlexManectric]

Pokemon OTCG makes you get rid all of your level ball, heavy ball,plasma ball in the same turn even though that aren't any pokemon in your deck. Or you could just use level ball search your deck and cancel by hitting the X button. What is the situation here? Is this cheating? I only follow OTCG rules

 

Urm.. I think you're confusing yourself a little. Let me just explain what can and should happen:

 

1) You do not have to play Level/Heavy/Ultra/Plasma Ball the turn you draw them - you can hold onto them as long as you want.

 

2) Deck searches ARE allowed to fail - so you can play a Level Ball, not pick a Pokemon (even if there are Pokemon you could have picked) and then just discard Level Ball without drawing a card/Pokemon. This is not cheating - and perfectly within the rules.

 

Hope that helps!

[rareball]

Thanks for replying. I want to comment on you number 2. If I use 2 level ball in the same turn and don't draw Pokemon from my deck even though they are in my deck, wouldn't I be cheating? Or take penalties? because I will draw cards every turn and maybe I draw a Pokemon who's HP is less than 90 and I decided to bench him I used the 2 level balls in the previous turn.

 

I saw a match last night in world championship where the opponent was using Thundurus EX and attacked with his first attack. The player didn't attach an energy from his discard pile to one of his benched Pokemon. Judges told him that you have to bench. So I think you can't get rid of items. You have to do exactly what they say. Other wise if you don't, you draw cards every turn eventually judges or your opponent will notice that you didn't play the items the right way.

 

There is also a mistake. Some guys play 2-4 items of the same kind in the same turn. This is advantages if he has bicycle or Bianca. Play a level ball then draw a Pokemon with less than 90 HP then search your deck to see how many tynamos you have in deck. If you have 2 tynamos in your deck, then again play your 2nd level ball in the same turn and draw your 2nd Tynamo. You'd then keep your third level ball in your hand because you know there aren't any left in your deck.

[AlexManectric]

If I use 2 level ball in the same turn and don't draw Pokemon from my deck even though they are in my deck, wouldn't I be cheating?

 

I saw a match last night in world championship where the opponent was using Thundurus EX and attacked with his first attack. The player didn't attach an energy from his discard pile to one of his benched Pokemon. Judges told him that you have to bench. So I think you can't get rid of items. You have to do exactly what they say. Other wise if you don't, you draw cards every turn eventually judges or your opponent will notice that you didn't play the items the right way.

 

No, you wouldn't be cheating - I can't be more clear: DECK searches are allowed to fail (therefore you can play it and not draw anything)

 

The reason Thundurus-EX's attack forced the player to attached Energy is that the attack description does not contain the word 'may' and Discard Pile searches are not allowed to fail - so he had no choice but to attach energy.

[rareball]

thanks again

[letour1902]

The rules what zone you search (hand, deck discard, play). It dépends if the zone is public or priate. In that case the deck is a private zone (no one can look at it the check if you have pokemon in it) and the discard is a public (everyone can check it to verify). This is the same concept than with eccecute that can be brought back to your hand more than once a turn.