From: Brian Brokaw To: Subject: Re: Ditto & Venusaur... Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 9:34 PM > This is a question that I came across while playing with my brother who uses > Colorless/Grass/Water... > > He had a Ditto as his active Pokemon and a Venusaur on his bench... I had a > Scyther as my active... That means his Ditto was a Scyther... His Ditto had 2 > DCE and 2 Water Energy on it. The Ditto card says treat any energy on Ditto > as any energy type... So can his Venusaur use Energy Trans on it? Bryan, If I gave out prizes for COOLEST questions, you would definitely get something GOOD! This is an AWESOME question! The short answer is NO, you may not use Energy Trans. Let me explain: In Pokemon there is a very BIG distinction between two terms: "ENERGY" and "ENERGY CARD" Please ALWAYS remember this! Ok, so anytime you read a card that refers to ENERGY CARD, they are discussing the ACTUAL, physical card... For example, Super Energy Removal allows you to discard 2 ENERGY CARDS. So you get to remove 2 physical, actual cards from one of your opponent's Pokemon. Since Double Colorless Energy is 1 ENERGY CARD, you can use Super Energy Removal to get rid of 2 Double Colorless Energy cards if you wish. Anytime you read a card that refers to ENERGY, they are discussing the imaginary units of ENERGY that your ENERGY CARDS provide. For example, Charizard states that you may turn any ENERGY attached to Charizard into (fire) ENERGY for the rest of your turn. So, since a Double Colorless Energy provides two imaginary units of (colorless) ENERGY, Charizard will be able to turn these into two units of (fire) ENERGY. Ok, so back to your question: Reading Ditto we can see that Transform uses the term ENERGY. It does NOT refer to the term ENERGY CARD. So, even though Ditto can turn its ENERGY (imaginary units available to Ditto) into any color that it wants, it cannot change the actual, physical ENERGY CARDS. So, unless those ENERGY CARDS are Grass ENERGY CARDS, you will not be able to use Venusaur's Energy Trans on them. Brian Brokaw