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Put 1 card from your hand face down onto your Bench. (You can’t play this card if your Bench is full.) Treat that card as a Basic Pokémon as long as it’s face down. Flip the card if either player needs to know what it is in order to use an attack, a Pokémon Power, or a Trainer card. Flip the card if it ever uses an attack or Pokémon Power, evolves, retreats, is damaged by an attack, or is otherwise affected by an attack. At any time during your turn, you may flip the card over. When you flip that card over, if it isn’t a Basic Pokémon, discard it and all cards attached to it.
illus. Ken Sugimori
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feyblade
Apparently, the “secret plan” was to enact a vicious psychological warfare campaign on his opponent by flooding him with an unrelenting deluge of rules text. For bonus points, check the rulings and errata associated with this card. It’s practically an essay!
chipthrasher
Pretty much all the cards from the ‘early days’ of Pokémon have extra unnecessary text. But this? This is quite the card, to say the least. :)
coolestman22
If you attack with it and flip it over, and it isn’t a basic, does the attack still go through?
Mantidactyle
Yes, the opponent simply choose immediately a new active Pokémon from his or her bench before the attacks continues.
EverPhoenix
I’d imagine that since it gets flipped before it attacks, it disappears. When you try to attack WITH it, that is. If it’s the target, then yeah – if it isn’t a basic, it disappears and a new pokemon takes its place.
Edit: oops, necro’d this comment so hard
reshikrom64
This card could lead to some epic mindgames. Like Yugi vs Panik from the Yugioh show:
“B-but! That’s not that Swords of Revealing Light!”
“I said that the Swords would be the card to defeat you. I never said it was the card I played!”
And majorly troll your opponent to make them worry to death and in the end knock out a Magikarp.
MarxForever
I applaud any card with this much imagination. Playing this really is an experience.
Dark Kira
Can I put damage counters on this with Alakazam BS or is it’s HP considered needed knowledge to use the power? If I can place damage counters on it, and it isn’t a Basic Pokemon, does my opponent take a prize when it gets flipped (for whatever reason)?
Also, if I put down a non-Basic-Pokemon and knock it out with Regigigas Lv.X’s Sacrifice, does my opponent take a prize? Can I even do that?
EverPhoenix
It says nothing about damage counters from something other than an attack, or HP. I guess that means you can move all the damage counters in the world onto it – then Damagriigus to KO anything.
If you Sacrifice it with Regigigas, it still counts as a Basic until you flip it. Since you KO it without flipping, they would still get a prize.
Dark Kira
No, my question about Alakazam is about this sentence: “as long as you don’t Knock Out that Pokémon”. The HP may be considered needed knowledge in order to do the power, thus flipping the card.
feyblade
The official rulings state that transferring damage onto a plan’d card requires it to be revealed,and that the damage swap will be retroactively negated if the card is revealed to be anything other than a basic pokemon.
EverPhoenix
Yeah I missed the “needs to be known to use a Pokemon power” thing. Definitely need to flip there, my bad.
DMNBT
For fun, with a friend we were updating old cards (like updated wording, buffing some cards up to Supporter level, etc.), and then we stumbled into this card. Besides the hell that is templating all that rules text, we’re debating on how to power up this bad boy. I’m of the mind of cleaning it up a little (ie: face down cards count as {C} Pokémon and stuff like that) and putting it as a Supporter; my friend is of the idea of making it an Ace Spec Supporter and transform it into the ultimate troll card (ie: nothing short of attacking it directly will make it flip over).
Victarion
Where’s Surge’s Secret Mission card?