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Ability ⇢ Puppet Offering
Once during your turn, you may put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand. If you do, put this Pokémon in the Lost Zone. (Discard all attached cards.)
{P}{P} → Spooky Shot : 50
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Resentment at being cast off made it spring into being. Some say that treating it well will satisfy it, and it will once more become a stuffed toy.
Hibachi
(Excluding alt arts/etc.) Banette is the second Pokémon to have more than one card that features them interacting with the Lost Zone as a mechanic, Banette’s first LZ card being back in Triumphant, and the only other Pokémon with this distinction being… well, take a wild guess.
Jiří z Poděbrad
When it says “discard all attached cards” I assume that means you discard the Shuppet this card evolved from, too?
As I previously posted over on SWSH088 Cherrim, if this card *did* allow you to send it to the LZ along with all attached cards, it would make for a quick and easy way to fill this ghostie up with energy cards and then send her off into oblivion. Alas! This strategy was foreseen and foreclosed.
Ambassador
The Shuppet doesn’t go into the LZ? I’ve always understood prior stages to fall under the “this Pokémon” umbrella, more or less.
Jiří z Poděbrad
I’m not sure! Depends on what the ruling is as to the definition of “attached cards”
mirosama
It definitely puts the shuppet into the Lost Zone as well, or Scoop Up Net would be a much worse card.
Jiří z Poděbrad
Got it. Thank you! That’s still a nice 2-cards-into-the-Lost-Zone.
LOR Comfey‘s Ability only lets you put one card into the LZ, so this is, numerically, the top Ability for LZ “acceleration”
Ambassador
I think it used to be up for question because I think they used to do their best to dodge the question. Of the example I can think of, Scoop Up and Super Scoop Up are written so as to completely sidestep whether previous stages are attachments, but Scoop Up Net begs an answer to the question;
Scoop Up Net
EN: Put 1 of your Pokémon that isn’t a Pokémon V or a Pokémon-GX into your hand. (Discard all attached cards.)
JP: 自分のポケモン（「ポケモンV・GX」をのぞく）を1匹選び、手札にもどす。（ポケモン以外のカードは、すべてトラッシュする。）
The JP reminder at the end actually doesn’t say “(Discard all attached cards.)” – it’s moreso saying “Discard all cards that are not Pokémon.” It’s the same with this Banette, actually, as it has the same （ポケモン以外のカードは、すべてトラッシュする。）in the text of the Ability.
Japan is still kind of sidestepping the question, but the English is written in such a way that you maybe need a ruling, I guess? (Has this really not come up before, though? I thought this was settled years and years ago…)
Twylis
I can’t point to a specific ruling and the compendium isn’t loading for me rn, but prior stages definitely count as “this pokemon” and not as attached cards. Just trust me on this :U
If there was ever a shift in how it worked, I think it was around when they stopped referring to pokemon collectively as “basic pokemon and evolution cards”, which is an absurd phrase that I’ve always assumed Wizards was responsible for.
Ambassador
I found a pokemon-card.com Q&A regarding Rescue Energy that pretty much asked exactly what we were discussing here – they wanted to know if the Basic and Stage 1 cards of a Stage 1 Pokémon with Rescue Energy attached could be returned to the hand, and the answer was yes. (Rescue Energy has the same “(ポケモン以外のカードは、すべてトラッシュする。)” text as Scoop Up Net, and this Banette. I reckon since the Q&A didn’t feel any particular need to elaborate, you’re definitely correct – prior stages count as “this Pokémon”.