The curious case of DCE

Often times, while trying to come up with deck building ideas, I’ll browse entire categories of cards. A while ago, I was doing this with Special Energy and I ran into a ruling question about Double Colorless Energy from Base Set and Base Set 2.

“Play as written”

This is the first in a series of posts delving deeper into specific rules for Partner Battles. Partner Battles doesn’t have a ton of rules, but we can find deck building improvements with some understanding and research.

The rule I’m writing about today is one of my favorites. Let’s dive right in!

Cards are played using the text printed on the English language version of the card (ignoring all issued errata), except cards with text misprints which create confusion as to how the card functions, which are played as though their errata text were printed on the card.

Section 4.1 of the Partner Battles Rules (Full Rules Text)

Exploring “Deck and Cover” Accelgor

There’s been talk for quite awhile in the Partner Battles Facebook group of “Deck and Cover” Accelgor being a potent partner. This is due to the rule that puts your Partner back into the Partner Zone instead of moving to a hidden zone – when you use “Deck and Cover”, Accelgor would go to the Partner Zone, Shelmet and all Energy would get shuffled into the deck & you’d leave your opponent Poisoned and Paralyzed. Ideally, you could do this every turn.

Deck Profile: “Good Stuff” Noivern-GX

I’ve been working on a Noivern-GX deck since it was spoiled for Burning Shadows.  Originally, it was based on the idea that item-lock through a damage dealing Partner, like Seismitoad-EX, would be a very powerful archetype; however, Seismitoad-EX needs ready access to Double Colorless Energy to run efficiently and I figured Noivern-GX would be more effective due to Evolved Dragons having access to more “Double Rainbow”-type Energy (Double Dragon, Scramble, Double Rainbow) than any other type of Pokemon.