Ruling Eelektross Crush and Burn

[Energymite!!]

Hi...
I have a question about the Eelektross from Plasma Blast.

In the first part of the first attack it says to discard as many energy as you like. So, lets say I discard 2 DCE and 1 basic Lightning energy. That's 5 energy.
Then the second part of the attack says that it does 30 damage times the number of energy cards you discarded. I discarded only 3 energy cards.

My question is how much damage do you do with this attack?

5*30=150

or

3*30=90

It's confusing because the attack first mentions energy and then in the second part it mentions energy cards.

Thanks

 

[King Arceus]

Because the card says it does 30 times the number of Energy Cards, any energy card counts as 1 so the damage would be 30 * 3 = 90.~KA

 

[Energymite!!]

Thanks for the quick reply.