Darkness Energy

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The role of this Energy

This older Darkness Energy provides Darkness and can add ten damage to an attack that hits its target after Weakness and Resistance are applied. It also carries a restriction less obvious from its name: at the end of every turn, a damage counter goes onto its holder if that Pokémon is neither Darkness type nor has Dark in its name. The card rewards some pairings and penalizes others, even when no attack is made that turn.

A detail worth noticing

The end-of-turn counter on these printings concerns a non-Darkness holder unless its name includes Dark. It is not an initial attachment cost: the text applies it at each turn's end when the condition is met.