As some of you might know, we have an ongoing issue involving copy attacks (Metronome, Foul Play, etc) vs discarding self energy. And I want to fix it once and for all.
Copy Attack Examples
(1) Metronome (errata’d): Choose 1 of the Defending Pokémon’s attacks. Metronome copies that attack except of its Energy costs. You must still do anything else required to use that attack, such as discarding Energy cards. (No matter what type the Defending Pokémon is, Clefairy’s type is still Colorless).
(2) Foul Play: Choose 1 of your opponent’s Active Pokémon’s attack and use it as this attack.
(3) Copy: Choose 1 of the Defending Pokémon’s attacks. Copy copies that attack. This attack does nothing if Sudowoodo doesn’t have the Energy necessary to use that attack. (You must still do anything else required in order to use that attack.)
Discarding Attack Examples
(A) Fire Spin: 70 damage. Discard 2 basic Energy cards attached to Flareon or this attack does nothing.
(B) Flamethrower: 50 damage. Discard a [R] Energy card attached to Arcanine in order to use this attack.
(C) Thunderbolt: 50 damage. Discard all Energy cards attached to Pikachu in order to use this attack.
(D) Discharge: 30× damage. Discard all [L] Energy cards attached to Flaaffy in order to use this attack. Flip a number of coins equal to the number of [L] Energy cards you discarded. This attack does 30 damage times then number of heads.
(E) Victory Ball: 50 damage. Discard a [R] Energy attached to this Pokémon.
The Question
What should happen in each case if the energies to be discarded in the attack text are NOT present on the attacker who copies the attack? (please mention in detail if there are more than one possibility for each case)**
There are 15 total cases to cover. Please reply by selecting & clicking “quote” & filling this table;
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