So, no, you probably couldn’t battle down to a mere one Prize card with 0 cards in your discard pile... but hey, that’s where these 2004 World Championships decks have ended up, at least for the sake of our puzzle!
It’s the beginning of your turn, and you just drew Pokémon Nurse. You have everything you need to Knock Out that Swampert ex and take your last Prize card. What do you do?
YOUR HAND
Fire Energy
Lightning Energy
Rare Candy (Trainer)
Switch (Trainer)
Blaziken (100 HP)
Blaziken ex (150 HP)
Pokémon Nurse (Supporter)
YOUR ACTIVE POKÉMON
Torchic (50 HP; 3 damage counters) with 1
Fire Energy attached
YOUR BENCHED POKÉMON
Bellossom (100 HP) with 1
Multi Energy (Special Energy Card) attached
Team Aqua’s Manectric (70 HP; 2 damage counters) with 2
Fire Energy attached
Rayquaza ex (100 HP; 4 damage counters) with 1
Lightning Energy attached
YOUR OPPONENT’S ACTIVE POKÉMON
Swampert ex (150 HP) with 4
Water Energy attached
Before attacking
--Play Rare Candy to evolve Torchic to Blaziken
--Use Pokémon Nurse to remove the 3 damage counters from Blaziken (or from Torchic before you evolved it) and discard the Fire Energy card attached to it
--Use Team Aqua’s Manectric’s Poké-Power Power Shift to move the 2 Fire Energy cards attached to Team Aqua’s Manectric to Rayquaza ex
--Use Blaziken’s Poké-Power to attach the Fire Energy card that’s in your discard pile to Rayquaza ex
--Attach the Fire Energy card in your hand to Rayquaza ex
--Use Switch to put Blaziken on your Bench and make Rayquaza ex your Active Pokémon
Now you’re ready to attack with Rayquaza ex, using Dragon Burst to discard all 4 Fire Energy cards you attached to do 160 damage. It took a lot of Energy moving around and around, but you take your last Prize card and win!