Trivia Quiz: What Do You Know About Pokemon Trading Card Game Rules?

SCENARIO:  Your active Zekrom has been burned, and you have a Rocky Helmet attached to it. You flip a coin in between turns and you get tails, so you take damage. Does your opponent's active take damage because of the Rocky Helmet?

• Yes

• No

Attacking is the last thing you should do because it ends your turn.

• True

• False

PokePowers may be used on the bench.

• True

• False

If your opponent knocks out your active on his/her turn, and it becomes your turn, what must you do?

• Draw to start your turn and then send out your next active from your bench.

• Send out your next active from the bench first, and then start your turn.

In the current 2011-2012 season, what are the legal modified sets you may use?

• All cards are legal

• Diamond and Pearl and newer

• Platinum and newer

• HeartGold/SoulSilver and newer

Which one of the following details are false? The SLEEP Condition: - When a Pokemon is asleep, it cannot retreat. - When a Pokemon is asleep, you turn it 90 degrees to the left. - In between turns, the asleep Pokemon's owner flips a coin. If tails, it is still asleep.

• When a Pokemon is asleep, it cannot retreat.

• When a Pokemon is asleep, you turn it 90 degrees to the left.

• In between turns, the asleep Pokemon's owner flips a coin. If tails, it is still asleep.

• All of them are true

You cannot have more than four cards with the same name in a deck. 

• True

• False

What is the best way to shuffle, and at the same time, keep track of your cards?

SCENARIO: You just used the last card in your hand last turn, so now you have 0 cards in your hand. Your turn begins and your draw a Professor Oak's New Theory and use it. Since you have no cards in your hand, do you still shuffle before you draw your 6 cards?

• Yes, you still shuffle.

• No, since there is nothing to shuffle.

SCENARIO: You're at a tournament using a deck that has a lot of energy moving. Say your active needs to be charged up, and a Pokemon on your bench is at low health and it has a ton of energy on it. You draw Pokemon Collector, and then you use it. One of the Pokemon you searched for is a Shaymin. You accidentally put it on the bench instead of in your hand and a judge makes you keep it there. {Poke-POWER: Celebration Wind - When you put Shaymin from your hand to your bench, you may move as many Energy cards attached to your Pokmon as you like to any of your other Pokmon.} Is Shaymin's ability still activated?

• Yes

• No

May certain old versions of cards be used if they have new reprint versions? (I.E: Old potions, rare candies, PlusPowers)

• Yes

• No

• Yes, but you must have a new card reference.

• Yes, but sometimes if the text has changed you will need a new card reference.

If you evolve your Pokemon, it removes all status conditions (like poison, sleep, etc.)

• True

• False

If you evolve your Pokemon, it removes all damage as well.

• True

• False

When using a Fisherman, do you HAVE to pull 4 energy cards from your discard pile or can you pull up to 4?

• It has to be 4 cards. If you don't have 4 in your discard, you may not use it.

• You have to pull as many as you can. So if you only have three, pull three.

• You can pull as many as you'd like up to 4.

SCENARIO: You are in a pit of a bad situation. Your active Chinchou is really weak and you have few cards left in your deck - all you need is your Lanturn prime and you have a chance to win this game. You draw Professor Elm's Training Method. Great! Now you can search for your Lanturn. You play the card and search through your deck to find that Lanturn must be in your prize cards! No problem, you think, you'll just look for a different evolution card... oh, there are no stage 1 or stage 2 left in your deck.  What do you do with Professor Elm's Training Method?   

• Because it is impossible for it to work, you keep the card.

• Because you played it, regardless of the success of the effect, you must discard it.

You may not evolve your Pokemon on your first turn or the same turn you put it in play.

• True

• False

The paralyze effect only lasts for your one turn, and then it ends when your opponent starts his/her next turn.

• True

• False

You may have more than one stadium card in play at one time.

• True

• False

You have to flip a coin for a poisoned Pokemon to take damage in between turns.

• True

• False

SCENARIO: You use Bill. After you draw your cards, it is still your turn. What do you do with Bill?  

• You discard it because its effect is done.

• You keep it in play even though it is not in use, and discard it at the end of your turn.

In official events, you are supposed to ask if your opponent would like to "cut" your deck. (they take it and split it)

• True

• False

Would an Eviolite reduce Zekrom's Bolt Strike Damage to itself? {Bolt Strike - This Pokemon does 40 damage to itself.} {EVIOLITE - If the Pokémon this card is attached to is a Basic Pokémon, any damage done to this Pokémon by attacks is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).}

• Yes

• No

SCENARIO: If you were to use a PokeBall and flip heads, could you search for both halves of Ho-Oh LEGEND?

• Yes, because it is technically one Pokemon.

• No, you may only search for one half.

You may use a Rare Candy to evolve a Pokemon on its (or your) first turn being played.

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT a way you are able to win the game?

• All of your opponent's Pokemon are defeated

• You have taken all of your prize cards

• Your opponent has no cards in his hand

• Your opponent has no cards in his deck

If you were to play Pokemon Catcher, do YOU choose which benched Pokemon your opponent sends out?

• Yes

• No

Are you allowed to use more than one PlusPower at once?

• Yes

• No

SCENARIO: You are battling with a  Gothitelle/Reuniclus deck . You have Reuniclus set up on your bench and Gothitelle as your acti ve. Cleffa (30HP) is also on your bench. Using Reuniclus' Damage Swap Poke-POWER, are you allowed to move the 90 damage over to Cleffa and knock it out? [Poke-POWER: Damage Swap As often as you'd like during your turn, you may move 1 damage counter on one of your Pokemon to another one of your Pokemon.]

• No, you may only move as much damage as the Pokemon has HP.

• Yes, you can move as much as you'd like as long as Cleffa is knocked out.

SCENARIO: Your active Pokemon is a Smeargle [UD8] and you activate its Portrait Poke-POWER. You look at your opponent's hand and they have supporters, but you don't want to use them. Do you have to use one or can you terminate the effect? [Poke-POWER: Portrait Once during your turn (Before you attack) you may look at your opponent's hand. If you do, choose a supporter you find there and use it as this effect.]

• You can choose not to use it

• Since you used the ability, you must choose a supporter.

SCENARIO: You have a Cleffa out as your active and you draw a PlusPower. If you attach PlusPower to Cleffa, will Cleffa's Eeeeek do 10 damage instead of 0? [Attack: Eeeeeek - no damage Shuffle your hand into your deck and draw 6 cards. Cleffa is now asleep.]

• Yes, it will do 10 more damage.

• No, PlusPower only works on attacks that do damage already.

If a Pokemon's attack requires a fire and single colorless energy, are you allowed to attach any type of energy and it will count as a colorless?

• Yes

• No

If a Rescue energy was attached to a Stage 2 Pokemon and it was knocked out, you can put all of it's stages back into your hand.

• True

• False

Are you allowed to look through either player's discard pile whenever you want during the game?

• Yes

• No

If you forget to draw a card at the beginning of your turn, you may ask your opponent if you can, since it is mandatory. You should still call a judge over if this happens. But what about optional things. Like if you forget to attack or attach an energy, and your turn is over. May you ask your opponent to do that?

• Yes you can. (They are allowed to say "no", though.)

• Nope, you can't.

If you knock out your own Pokemon, your opponent still takes a prize card.

• True

• False

You are allowed to shuffle your deck whenever you feel like it.

• True

• False

If your opponent runs out of cards on his turn after he drew his first card, is the game over?

• Yes, your opponent is out of cards so he loses.

• No, the game is over if he is unable to draw a card on his next turn.