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Play this card as if it were a 60-HP Basic {C} Pokémon. This card can’t be affected by any Special Conditions and can’t retreat.
At any time during your turn, you may discard this card from play.
Ability ⇢ Amber Protection
Prevent all effects of your opponent’s Pokémon’s Abilities done to this Pokémon.
· Item rule: You may play any number of Item cards during your turn.
illus. AYUMI ODASHIMA
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Jack
Full disclosure, I’m aware that the only card named “Aerodactyl” currently legal in Modified is the one in this very set, but for argument’s sake and because I’m curious: because the card says “Evolves into Aerodactyl” on it, could it evolve into any card named Aerodactyl (or Aerodactyl ex) in theory, regardless of the stage or “evolves from” text of that particular card?
The only other cards I’m aware of with “evolves into” text are Baby Pokémon–which evolved into Basics with no “evolves from” text–and Buried Fossil, which came with the caveat that it had to evolve into a Pokémon that evolved from Mysterious Fossil. This is similar to both of those examples, but not exact. It’s also been 20 years since either of those examples were tournament-legal.
I’m just trying to figure out if this is an attempt at future-proofing (which I would be really happy to see) or if it’s PCL being quirky again.
Twylis
We have multiple Aerodactyl cards legal in Expanded format, which is an officially supported format (albeit neglected), so my gut interpretation is that this card can be used to evolve into any of them. While it’s a bit of a stretch, I think the most comparable card would be Prism Star Ditto, whose ability allows playing any Stage 1 pokemon onto it to evolve it — I believe this card would circumvent the “evolves from” text the same way Ditto Prism Star does. Presumably, the Aerodactyl would keep its listed stage designation when in play (i.e. Stage 1 or Restored).
Unlimited is not an officially supported format, but if this is correct, this would logically apply to any Aerodactyl and gen 3 Aerodactyl ex there as well (given that, surprisingly, gen 3 ex cards are considered the same class of card as gen 9 ex cards).
I’m surprised by the apparent lack of an official ruling on this already, since it seems like a fairly important thing to clarify.
Gaardus
We have an official ruling now: the “Evolves into” box is non-functional.
https://compendium.pokegym.net/ruling/1917/
The longer I think about it, the angrier I get.
Gaardus
They printed a lie about a card’s functionality directly onto the card.
ON PURPOSE
JP
“Evolves into Aerodactyl or Aerodactyl ex, except when it doesn’t”
SHINY SHINX
since this cannot evolve into the sandstorm aerodactyl ex, this now acts as the second (to my knowledge) pointer towards a potential future pokemon ex (along with pidove tef making reference to a nonexistent unfezant ex). time will tell if these references are actually indicative of planned future cards, or just tpci being needlessly prepared
i do like the idea of “foreshadowing” in this way
bouny
Can I put a technical machine tool on this and an energy to attack with it?
Gaardus
Yes! https://compendium.pokegym.net/ruling/1922/
Atatakakatta
Man, and I was hoping they could use that “Evolves into” tech to fix Baby Pokemon. Guess that’s never going to happen…