Council of Elrond

Belegaer, Forod, Rhun, etc. wrote:Playable during organization phase on a company moving without region cards. Company may move from a site of origin in one of the following regions to a new site in one of the following regions etc.

How can this be played on a moving company if you can't play the site you're moving to until this card is played?

Is one allowed to play an illegal site during the organization phase?

If so, doesn't this open up exploits for card playable only a moving company being played on companies that have no intention of moving, but have an illegal site revealed?

How can this be played on a moving company if you can't play the site you're moving to until this card is played?

We ran into this about a year ago on the netrep team. Basically, you have to interpret "moving company" in these cards to mean company that plans to move.

Is one allowed to play an illegal site during the organization phase?

If so, doesn't this open up exploits for card playable only a moving company being played on companies that have no intention of moving, but have an illegal site revealed?

Do you have in mind something like this? Evil McPlayer plays a bunch of cards like Lost in foo during the org phase at Rivendell. He reveals Urlurtsu Nurn as his destination, and then says, "oops, guess I can't move," having successfully rid himself of 6 cards? If someone does this, the judge can have a little talk with him out back...

Or even those like Horses, which are supposed to be for a moving company but could be used to reduce the HL for a stationary company at a haven.