Is the Azuki Gate like retreating in Pokémon?
PartlyPartly. Retreating swaps your Active Pokémon with a Benched one for an Energy cost. The Gate moves an Alley entity up for free, once a turn, and adds an effect, but nothing moves back.
The Gate in the Azuki TCG
Every deck has one Gate. Once per turn, tap it to portal an untapped entity from your Alley into your Garden; then the Gate’s effect happens, sized by that entity’s Gate Power. The Gate costs no IKZ and can’t be attacked or destroyed.
The same
- Both bring a waiting unit to the front, once a turn.
Different
- Retreat sends the Active Pokémon to the Bench. The Gate only moves an entity forward, into a free Garden space or replacing one.
- The Gate triggers its own effect, like Gate of Echoed Waves returning a spell to your hand.
Pokémon TCG: checked against the Pokémon TCG rulebook. Azuki TCG: printed card text and the rules.
