From: Brian Brokaw To: Subject: Re: Haunter's dream eater Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 12:47 AM Hi Brian, there was a situation at a pokémon game i watched, and i was wondering if you could tell me if they did the right thing. Someone used their base set haunter, and wasn't reading the card too well. they tried to use dream eater while the defending pokémon was awake. The card says that you can't use it if the defending pokémon was awake, so he tried to use dream eater anyway, but since the defending pokemon was awake, the card says that attack can't be used. Does this mean that haunter loses it's attack, or does the attack never happen. In the GB, dream eater always misses unless they're asleep, so do you think that would happen in the TCG? ---------------------------------------- The attack never happened. This player could NOT use Dream Eater, so both players should have just realized that the conditions were not met and let Haunter's trainer decide whether it wants to use Hypnosis or not. In all TCGs, WOTC has a rule about "simple mistakes". (I forget their exact term for this). Anyway, the rule is: you should ALWAYS try to correct mistakes to the way the game was played. As soon as someone realizes a mistake was made (a rule was followed incorrectly), both players should try to "back up" to the point where the mistake was made and re-do things. If the mistake was too far back however, just try to negotiate a fix to it. In casual play, I always let it stand (if I didn't catch the mistake when it happened, its partially my fault too). In a tournament, you may want to ask a judge to consider some kind of penalty for the player who made the error (maybe give 1 prize card to their opponent, etc.) Brian Brokaw