Muk · Fossil (FO) #28

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   feyblade

   (12 years ago)

   Gust of Wind/catcher+Hypnotoxic Laser ALWAYS shuts this guy down(check the rulings on Pokemon Powers and special conditions) in unlimited,allowing donk decks (especially ones like crobat donk, which rely on pushing out a finite amount of damage) to brutalize this guy. Yes, hypnotoxic laser works as a one sided cessation crystal against pokemon like this, as well.

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     Krisi92feyblade

     (12 years ago)

     Where is this rule? I couldn’t find it anywhere, and haven’t heard anybody saying this. Also, poison’s not listed on any card, and neither of the official Pokémon TCG games act like that.
     Also, even if it worked like that, what if the opponent had 2 of these guys?

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       feybladeKrisi92

       (12 years ago)

       == POKÉMON POWERS IN GENERAL

       * [Effective 1/17/02:] There is alsoa new Pokemon rule change that will even FURTHER give the current environment somediversity. In working on keeping the Pokemon rules as close as possible to the Japaneserules of the game, there is a new term that will be introduced in a later set thisyear. This is “Special Conditions”. Asleep, Confusion, Paralysis, POISON,and later on Burned are all defined as Special Conditions. All of these effects areremoved from the Active Pokemon if they Evolve, Devolve, Leave Play, or are Benched.They ALSO shut off ALL Pokemon Powers on the Pokemon effected by a Special Condition.This means that Poison (and later on Burned) shut off Pokemon Powers on the Pokemonaffected by them. This is a clarification of the rules for Pokemon and WILL takeplace in all of the upcoming Challenge series events and tournaments. TPC has toldus that is how it supposed to work. (Jan 17, 2002 WotC Chat Announcements & Q1280)

       * Basically any Pokemon Power on any Pokemon that says it stops working if the Pokemonis Paralyzed, Asleep, or Confused, now should ALSO include Poisoned, or Burned aswell. These 5 effects are known as Special Conditions. Almost every Pokemon powerstops working if its Pokemon has a Special Condition on it. If a Pokemon power saysit still functions if Asleep, Conufused, or Paralyzed, that also holds true for Poisonedand Burned as well. Char, while similar to Burned is NOT the same thing and doesNOT fall under this rule change. All Special Conditions are removed from a Pokemonif it Evolves, Devolves, Leaves play, or is Benched. (Jan 17, 2002 WotC Chat, Q1278& Q1284)

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       And if your opponent had two of those guys, you’d be doomed unless you used seeker on one and hypnotoxic on the other…but that wouldn’t save you if there were three of them.

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   Louis Strasbourg

   (3 years ago)

   I love the way attacks are written in the old format: “ignore all Pokemon Powers” =/= “all Pokemon Powers stop working.” You could read it literally as, “I, with my Muk, am ignoring your Pokemon Powers!” but then they respond, “okay well I’m NOT ignoring them” and then proceed to use Slowking or whatever. You see what I’m saying?

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