If some strategy focuses on/is prepared to hinder opponent's ring's strategy, the strategy is less focused on/is less prepared to anything else. Lady of the Golden Wood may be good choice for Hero/Fallen Wizard player against Minion player but may have minimal or no use otherwise. Cure for global w...

I really want to like magic rings and I have been thinking a lot about how to really make the most of them, but the more I think about it - even with Gandalf's tapping and testing ability - they just seem too vulnerable to 'rolled down to the sea', given it takes two cards minimum in the deck to pro...

OK, 'Rolled own to the sea': says "Opponent must discard a ring from his hand ... if available." 'Rumours of rings': says "You may play a ring special item with this card as though it were in your hand." So my take in this is that if my opponent plays rolled down to the sea and I...

Special item rings that may be played in result of testing of gold rings are not items playable at site or played at site. Even if they are played with company at some site. If they would be played with moving company it would not make them playable "en route", or played "at" so...

The Strider character description allows Strider to tap and retrieve from the discard pile any item playable at his site in Arthedain, Cardolan, Rhuduar and The Shire. Does this apply to ring special items like the One Ring? My guess is the item needs to be specifically keyed to the site either in t...

If a strike has been canceled, the strike did not fail, was not successful, nor ineffectual. I understand this part ok - I guess this relates to MP mostly. If there are two strikes (for example a light-drake), one is cancelled using a RoS and the other is defeated though, then are the MP gained for...

sarma72 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:50 pm Chris, your aside got me thinking that maybe we should compile a small document with MECCG in game etiquette and key questions. Like, "Does it resolve? Cancel? Shall I assign? etc etc"

Marc, if you are talking to me here - I agree, happy to help with this.

I have doubts about meaning of "facing a strike". If it means "being assigned a strike" then Dragon's Blood may be played on character assigned a strike before strike sequence. Otherwise Dragon's Blood may be played only during strike sequence. Yes, looking at the text of dragon...

He can play it on corruption check he is facing (that is not the same as "on himself"). Diplomat in some company is a character in the company. Thanks. I guess this means yes - you only need one diplomat in the company. I am thinking here about Gandalf (who is a diplomat) playing Narya in...

Another unclear point for me. The New and Old Friendship cards say, for example: "Diplomat only. +x to a corruption check for a character in the diplomat's company." Does this mean that if a diplomat wants to adjust his corruption check with this card, he needs another diplomat in his comp...

I've noticed that people want to ask whether or not the attack is cancelled. But as a general practice, you do not want to be answering this question because it doesn't make any difference on the game and you are free to change your mind if the opponent plays hazards. What matters is whether strike...

OK, my understanding of this, is the Alatar teleport is triggered by the assigning attack not the strike. So Alatar could also teleport when a company decideds to 'go in' to Moria for example provided the site attack is cancelled. So in the Cave Drake example: 1. Opponent says 'I am playing a cave d...

Konrad Klar wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 4:48 pm Yes. He can.

Excellent! Thanks for this.

Just a quick clarification regarding Alatar teleporting: If I have Arwen in my company (for example), the opponent plays a cave drake - so two strikes attackers chooses defending characters. If Alatar teleports can he then face one of the two strikes, regardless of the opponents selection? If this i...

Theo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:16 pm What is that, an Arwen shower scene?

I just want to say that this is genuinely not only the funniest thing I have ever read on CoE, but possibly the funniest thing I have ever read. Period.

I laugh outloud every time I read this.

Yours

LTG

aka. Arwen/Luthien fan-boy #1.