The Salvatore Rule Change for Gym Leader Challenge (GLC)

The release of Temporal Forces brought many new cards into the Pokemon TCG for all formats, such as Standard and Gym Leader Challenge. One of these cards was Salvatore, a Supporter card that caused a rule change with significant impact on GLC. Let’s talk about why.
As a reference, the folks at CardboardWarriors wrote a detailed post about this rule change: cardboardwarri....
Previous ruling for Wally and Evosoda: compendium.pok...
Q: Can I use Salvatore to search my deck for a card that is not legal for play in the current tournament format? For example, in a Standard format tournament, could I use Salvatore on a Raichu to search for Raichu BREAK?
A: No. A card has to be legal for play in the designated tournament format in order to be searched for by Salvatore.
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