TPCi Clarifies The Trickier Rules of V-UNION Pokemon

We covered the rules of V-UNION Pokemon when they were first revealed back in June.

Four different cards form a V-UNION Pokemon. A V-UNION Pokemon can only be played to your Bench when all four cards are in your discard pile. Since all four cards of a V-UNION share the same name, you can only have one of each V-UNION Pokemon in your deck. When fully assembled, they’re neither Basic Pokemon nor Evolution Pokemon — their stage is “V-UNION.”

Now TPCi has posted an article that clarifies some of their trickier rules (we’ve edited some parts for clarity):

When the four cards are separate, they follow some tricky rules. When not in play, each piece of a Pokémon V-UNION still retains its Energy type (Grass, Fire, etc.), its card type (Pokémon), and its card name. So if you use [card name=”Poké Kid” set=”Sword and Shield” no=”173″ c=”name”][/card], you could search for one of the four Pokémon V-UNION cards, since one piece is a Pokémon. You could also use [card name=”Mysterious Treasure” set=”Forbidden Light” no=”113″ c=”name”][/card] to search for a Mewtwo V-UNION card, since it’s a Psychic type. And if you have a Mewtwo V-UNION in your discard pile, you could use [card name=”Familiar Bell” set=”Darkness Ablaze” no=”161″ c=”name”][/card] to search for a Mewtwo V-UNION.

The other characteristics of a Pokémon V-UNION do not exist when it isn’t in play. For example, even if a Pokémon V-UNION has a Retreat Cost of 3 or more when it’s fully assembled, you still can’t search for any of the parts with [card name=”Heavy Ball” set=”BREAKthrough” no=”140″ c=”name”][/card]. And even though some parts have an HP listed, you still can’t search for them with [card name=”Level Ball” set=”Battle Styles” no=”129″ c=”name”][/card]. The same goes for Abilities, Weakness, and so on.

The first V-UNION Pokemon will appear in the V-UNION Special Collections on September 24th for $29.99. Each will come with four promo cards of the V-UNION Pokemon, a jumbo card combining them into one card, a Professor Burnett Supporter card, four booster packs, and a PTCGO code card.