Ecstatic (Once Per Turn) Energy – Pokémon TCG Highlander: April 2024 Update

Make the most of this already great month with some highlander hijinks.

The self-bounty of Brennen LaMastres has extended to this month:

March Monthly Tournament Coverage

Changed Cards

• Abomasnow – Mega: “Snow Warning” stays active even when Mega Abomasnow goes to the bench. Damage counters are only placed at the end of your turn, not both.
• Cincinno: “Amazing Plea” was replaced with “Make Do.” “Do the Wave” was replaced with the “Special Roll.”
• Drapion: “Scorpion Grapple” was replaced with “Dangerous Stinger.”
• Dusknoir: “Damage Even” now has an initial extra 3 damage counters placed onto the targeted Pokémon.
• Gengar: “Poltergeist” has an initial 10 damage done by default now, before potential 30 times modifiers are added.
• Golem: “Enranged Linear Attack” does an initial 30 damage before counting the amount of damage counters on Golem.
• Iron Valiant: “Tachyon Bits” does not have a once per turn restriction and can use Energy attached to your Pokémon as the cost.
• Koraidon: “Dino Cry” now searches for two Dragon, Fire, and Fighting Energy (based off of your cost,) instead of accelerating it by meeting turn ending criteria.
• Medicham: “Force Palm” now deals damage instead of placing damage counters. The initial damage starts at 10, rather than zero.
• Oinkologne: “Maddening Scent” has an additional criteria that can be met for more damage that involves the amount of Pokémon-EX your opponent has in play.
• Pinsir – Mega: “Aerilate” has been updated to clarify “Special Energy that provide Colorless” for the bonus 10 damage. The bonus is now for any target, not just the Defending Pokémon.
• Seismitoad: “Siphon Off” was replaced with “Quaking Zone.”
• Shedinja – Level X: “Faded & Forgotten” has its top deck number based off the the remaining prize cards of your opponent instead of the player using the attack.
• Shiftry: “Darkness Fan” target count has gone from one to two while shuffling Pokémon-EX targets into the deck now. “Seal Off” turns off Poké-Powers for your opponent’s Pokémon-EX as well.
• Thievul: “Thief” was replaced with “Baffling.”
• Thundurus: “Raging Thunder Punch” now places 1 damage counter on all of your opponent’s Basic Pokémon. The bonus damage now activates if the Defending Pokémon is an EX, not just specifically for having a Pokémon Tool card.
• Unown – Level X: “Writing on the Wall” has had all four of its criteria numbers changed from “2 cards left in their deck / no Benched Pokémon / 2 prize cards remaining / 6 or more Pokémon in the Lost Zone” to “under 11 cards left in their deck / under 2 Benched Pokémon / under 3 prize cards remaining / 5 or more Pokémon in the Lost Zone”
• Zebstrika: “Zap Zone” now applies to your Pokémon that have Lightning Energy attached to them. Disconnect now does 20 less damage and costs one less Colorless Energy.

New Trainer/Supporter/Stadium/Special Energy Cards from Temporal Forces:

• Bianca’s Devotion
• Boxed Order
• Ciphermaniac’s Codebreaking (alternate card to Mallow.)
• Eri
• Explorer’s Guidance
• Full Metal Lab (Minus 10 damage instead of 30.)
• Hand Trimmer
• Heavy Baton (2 Basic Energy cards instead of 3.)
• Morty’s Conviction
• Perilous Jungle (non-Psychic types instead of Darkness types)
• Rescue Board
• Mist Energy

New Not Fully Evolved Pokémon from Temporal Forces:

• Pidove
• Skitty

New Stadium Cards from previous sets:

• Ancient Tomb
• Desert Ruins
• Drake’s Stadium (changed to Dragon Type)
• Glacia’s Stadium
• Healing Field (changed to 30 damage healed)
• High Pressure System (changed to granting no Retreat Cost)
• Island Cave
• Low Pressure System (changed to +20HP)
• Magnetic Storm
• Mirage Stadium
• Mt. Moon (with the official errata of less than 80HP)
• Mystery Zone
• Phoebe’s Stadium
• Pokemon Tower (Updated to state “If the effect of a card” as an umbrella statement)
• Pokemon Park
• Rocket’s Minefield Gym
• Sidney’s Stadium
• Space Center
• The Rocket’s Training Gym

New Pokémon:

• Colorless: Farigiraf
• Dragon: Roaring Moon
• Grass: Toedscruel
• Water: Wugtrio

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