Raikou, Entei and Suicune were the first legendary Pokmon to have their own special battle theme in the video games
KRAZY KOW IS KRAZY, look at those huge eyes bugging out and the completely crazy expression she has and those mighty arm muscles and the fact that she's beating the farmer so hard that the milk's spilling all over the rest of the cards
[121] While developing the Pokemon RPG, he realized that the concept behind it could be adapted into a Magic -like CCG
For example, if the target creature has protection from red, you can't return Grim Reaper's Sprint to the battlefield with Cass's last ability
Even fallen empires can rise again if you fine-tune your deck construction
Given there were originally 15 types of Pokemon back in the Red and Blue days and that has grown to 18 over the years, it makes sense to simplify things for the TCG