Cards Rules

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Okay. I didn't make this page until now (5-29-99) because I am the laziest person in the world to type. Now that I feel like making this page, I gotta hurry before my enthusiasm runs out.
Alright. Here are the basic rules of Pokemon cards. If you understand it, you can play with everyone else.


WHAT YOU NEED:
a deck, a coin at minimum, damage counters and poison counter if necessary.

Here's the basic flow of the game.

GETTING THE GAME STARTED:

1. Shuffle your own deck, then your opponent's deck

2. After you got your deck back, take 6 cards face down, and place to the side.

The 6 cards-refered to as Side Cards. When you kill one of your opponent's Battle Pokemon, you take one and add one to your Hand Card.

3. Take another 7 cards from the deck.

The 7 cards-refered to as Hand Cards. These are the cards that you can look at like when you play cards.

4. Place a BASIC pokemon FACE DOWN to the battle field to fight, and flip the card at the same time.

Battle Field- somewhere between you and your opponent so that both of you can see the cards.

Throw a coin and decide who's turn goes first. You're ready!

THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO IN YOUR TURN

Optional=You can do it if you want, but you don't have to do it
Any Time=You can do it anytime you want to between after you took a card from the deck and you attack or say "DONE".

1. Pull one card from the deck and add to your Hand Card.

Not Optional

Beginning of your turn

2. Put only ONE energy card on the pokemon you would like to.

Optional

Any Time

You can put an energy card on a pokemon in the Bench, but you can't put another one for the Battle Pokemon if you do that.

3. Use as many trainer cards as you want

Optional

Any Time

You can only use a trainer card once, and after you use it, you put it into the trash pile.

4. Escape your battle pokemon

Optional

Any Time

You can only escape ONE pokemon per turn, and you put the escaped pokemon back to the Bench and take another pokemon FROM THE BENCH to the Battle Field. The energy you use is on the pokemon, and you can throw away the energy either on that pokemon or from your Hand Card. The energy goes to the Trash.

5. Evolve only ONE pokemon ONCE.

Optional

Any Time

You cannot let a pokemon evolve twice such as from Squirtle to Blastoise. You need to evolve to wartortle in one turn and blastoise in another.

6. Put pokemon out on Bench

Optional

Any Time

You can place as many pokemons to the Bench you want but there can be only 5 pokemons in the bench. You have to place a BASIC pokemon and you can't evolve that pokemon until the next turn.

Attack if you have all the requirements of the trick you want to use.

Not Optional

At the end of your turn