Zombie questions

Ok, I was playing in a game with my giovanni deck, and I managed to get all 5 of my zombies onto one of my vampires...which does bring me to another question: the 10 giovanni, that reduces the cost of minions and ally by one pool, that would NOT make free zombies right, since one blood cost for zombies is different, but free morticians, since they are one pool... Well, anyway, we had these 5 zombies on her, and we had a question: how does one fortitude out of the zombies? Skin of steel? are zombie strikes considered strikes? How about dodging them, is it possible? Exact text: "Only usable at close range. When the vampire with this retainer is in combat, opposing minion takes 1 additional damage during strike resolution." Howzabout if you get additional strikes, since there is another strike resolution, do the zombies just go nuts and rend and tear? Paul

Zombie works just like Wolf Companion: if the Zombie and its retainer are each in play when the first normal strikes resolve during a round, the Zombie deals 1 damage to the opposing minion. This damage is only dealt at close range, and is not a strike, so may not be dodged, or prevented by cards that prevent damage from strikes. Tom Wylie rec.games.trading-cards.* Network Representative for aa...@cats.ucsc.edu Wizards of the Coast, Inc.