Advanced Rules
What's New in the Neo Genesis Expansion?
Baby Pokemon:
These are a special type of Basic Pokemon card. They can evolve into other Pokemon. For example, if Piahu evolved into Pikachu, that Pikachu is an Evolved Pokemon, not a Basic Pokemon card.

Darkness ( ) Pokemon and Metal ( ) Pokemon:
The Neo Genesis^TM set has two new types of Pokemon cards: Darkness ( ) Pokemon and Metal
( ) Pokemon. They have new Energy cards to go with them (but not basic Energy cards--- and Energy cards have special powers). The Pokemon aren't the same as the Dark Pokemon in the Team Rocket^TM expansion. If a card refers to a Pokemon, it means one of these new Neo Genesis Pokemon. If a card refers to "a Pokemon with Dark in its name," it means a Team Rocket Dark Pokemon.

Pokemon Tools:
These are a special kind of Trainer card that you can attach to your Pokemon to help you. Each of the Pokemon Tools says on it how it works. Each Pokemon can have only 1 Pokemon Tool attached to it at any time.

Another Way to Win
You already know that you win if you take all of your Prizes or if your opponent has no Benched Pokemon to replace his or her Active Pokemon if it gets Knocked Out or otherwise removed from play. You also win if your opponent's deck is out of cards at the beginning of his or her turn.

New Deck Size
Instead of each player playing with a 30-cards deck, now each of you must play with a 60-cards deck, no more and no less!

Changes in Setting Up
You set up the advanced game just like you set up the basic game, except that now, after you and your opponent each choose your Active Pokemon, you also do the following:
# Each of you may, if you want, choose up to 5 Basic Pokemon cards from each of your hands and put them face down on your Benches.
# Each of you puts down 6 Prizes instead of 3.
# Flip a coin to decide who goes first (this is just like in the baisc game).
# Each of you flips over all of the Active and Benched Pokemon that you've put on the table.

New Step during Your Turn: Pokemon Powers
You can do all of the things during your turn that you could do before, plus one new things: use a "Pokemon Power". Some Pokemon have a special "Pokemon Power." They can use these powers when they're your Active Pokemon or even when they're on your Bench. Many of these powers can be used before you attack---so you get to use a power and still attack! Each Pokemon Power is different, though, so you should read carefully to see how each power works.

Evolving a Stage 1 Pokemon to Stage 2
A Stage 1 Pokemon evolves to Stage 2 the same way that a Basic Pokemon evolves to Stage 1. You play a Stage 2 Pokemon in your hand on top of the matching Stage 1 Pokemon in play (either your Active Pokemon or one of your Benched ones).
Remember that the evolving Pokemon keeps all cards attached to it (Energy cards, Evolution cards, etc.) and any damage it might already have, but the old attacks and Pokemon Powers of the Pokemon it evolved from go away.
You can't evolve a Pokemon that you just evolved that turn (so you can't evolve a Basic Pokemon to Stage 1 and then evolve it again to Stage 2 that same turn). And you can't evolve a Basic Pokemon directly to Stage 2. It has to evolve to Stage 1 first!

Weakness and Resistance
Some Pokemon have a Weakness or Resistance to certain other types of Pokemon. (For example, Charizard has a Weakness to Pokemon.) A Defending Pokemon takes double damage from a Pokemon that it has a Weakness to, and it takes 30 less damage from a Pokemon that it has Resistance to. That's all there is to it!