From: Brian Brokaw <brokaw@teleport.com>
To: TigerMoogle@aol.com <TigerMoogle@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Alakazam and Gengar
Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 9:42 PM

From: TigerMoogle@aol.com <TigerMoogle@aol.com>
To: brokaw@thepojo.com <brokaw@thepojo.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 3:47 PM
Subject: Alakazam and Gengar


>Brian,
>
>Hello, Feel free to post this, but if not, please email me anyway. I'm
>wondering, considering that you stated that Alakazam's Damage Swap can be
>used multiple times in one turn, if Gengar from Fossil (his attacks being
>defined by Scrye) has a Power that works the same way. Can you switch as many
>damage counters of the opponent as you'd like, per turn? Please let me know.
>Thanks!
>
>Larry
>
>BTW, i've heard that even when Japanese Cards are playable, you're not
>allowed to use Gym unless your entire deck is Gym. Is this true? Thanks for
>your response!


Hi Larry.

I'm trying to avoid answering questions based on bad translations.
Scrye was severely wrong on the Fossil Trainer card and may very
well be wrong on others.  So, until Fossil is actually released,
I'm not going to pursue rulings.

In Japanese rules, you CAN mix Gym and non-Gym cards. (heck, all of
the Gym theme decks include some non-Gym cards.)  But all of the
"trainer's pokemon" evolve from other "trainer's pokemon" so you
won't be able to mix-and-match evolutions.

Brian Brokaw