Killing a Fossil counts as a Pokemon?

aiedos

Hi, why does killing a fossil count as a Pokemon when Marshadow uses the Revenge ability? It's not really a pokemon is it?

L_LostWord

Is it like say a Claw Fossil, which if you killed would mean that you 1. Shatter the rock and 2. Make it so resurrecting it would be impossible.

TheJeffers

Are you speaking from a flavour perspective?

Because from a game balance perspective, it makes sense that taking out a fossil counts as a Pokémon.

Fossils used to be considered strictly items in the TCG, but it was open to abuse.

TheJeffers

Are you speaking from a flavour perspective?

Because from a game balance perspective, it makes sense that taking out a fossil counts as a Pokémon.

Fossils used to be considered strictly items in the TCG, but it was open to abuse.

aiedos

Purely from a logical perspective. A fossil is not alive and therefore you taking it out shouldn't constitute as defeating it. And therefore, the Revenge ability shouldn't trigger.

L_LostWord

I think base form fossil Pokémon cards say they evolve from the fossil they came from, I only know this from Anorith's cards.

Dr4zhar

I guess it's a balancing element. People are already using fossils as easy decoys since you can just discard them without a retreat cost. If they didn't give a point, every deck would slot them as decoys.

OlderAngel11

I agree I was confused by this. I wish you didn't take a point off of it so that it could be a decoy.