Council of Elrond

I have a question considering the characters you may put to deck before and after draft. CoL tournament policy in effect.

Please confirm if I am right or wrong:

1.) I may put characters directly to deck in deck building process. These characters are fixed (I am not allowed to put them out after the draft for example).

2.) After the draft I can put characters only from pool to deck. I can not take any characters from collection.

3.) Or am I allowed to put any character I like from pool/deck/collection to the deck after character draft? (max. 10 of course)

Thanks in advance.

Only characters from your pool.

Searching for a way to cheat with characters too?

Bandobras Took wrote:Only characters from your pool.

I don´t think so - read basic rules. if there is any crf than please show us - i have not found anything.

Council of Lorien tournament policy
Character Draft
In his or her play deck, each player may now assign up to 10 characters, and this may include any unrevealed or duplicated (set aside) characters from his or her pool of starting characters.

This is the sentence I am not sure if I understand it correctly. Does this mean you may include characters from pool (... and also from elsewhere). Or does that mean you may add unrevealed/duplicated characters (... but only from pool). Is my english not good enough or can this sentence be understood in either way?

NO this sentence stats exactly that the maximum is ALLWAYS 10...
although you might inclued charcters unselcted while drafting, but only if you don't go over 10 characters.

BoderHamster wrote:NO this sentence stats exactly that the maximum is ALLWAYS 10...
although you might inclued charcters unselcted while drafting, but only if you don't go over 10 characters.

Hehe, thanks Boder, but that was not the question.
Or do you mean I can take characters from collection (not in pool) with "unselected"? That was the question.

Alter Tuk wrote:

Council of Lorien tournament policy
Character Draft
In his or her play deck, each player may now assign up to 10 characters, and this may include any unrevealed or duplicated (set aside) characters from his or her pool of starting characters.

This is the sentence I am not sure if I understand it correctly. Does this mean you may include characters from pool (... and also from elsewhere). Or does that mean you may add unrevealed/duplicated characters (... but only from pool). Is my english not good enough or can this sentence be understood in either way?

Simply it means that the characters which were in your pool at the very beginning (i.e. before the draft) can now be put into your deck (otherwise they're removed from play), while the characters which belonged to your deck in the first place remain where they are.

Cards which neither belong to your deck, nor to your pool, nor to your sideboard simply do not exist as far as the game is concerned. Wizard chars which can be replaced when playing Hero vs Fallen are an exception.

IIRC I read somewhere that the duplicated chars from the draft which you choose to put in your deck do not count for the 10 chars maximum in your deck, but I'm not sure honestly, nor I remember where I read that, maybe somewhere in the CRF but as I said before I'm not sure...

CoL tournament policy
Character Draft
In his or her play deck, each player may now assign up to 10 characters, and this may include any unrevealed or duplicated (set aside) characters from his or her pool of starting characters. Note that the Character Draft differs from the rulesbook in that a duplicated starting character does not automatically go into the play deck, and that its inclusion in the play deck does count against the deck's 10 character maximum.

To be precise...

The character draft was instituted to help prevent complete bouncing in a tournament setting.

MELE Rules, Getting Ready To Play wrote:3. Place one to six starting minion characters (no Ringwraiths, no minion agents from Dark Minions) face down in front of you. The combined mind attributes (see page 18 ) of these characters must be 20 or less. You and your opponent reveal your characters simultaneously, placing any duplicated characters into your play decks. Then organize your starting characters into followers and companies and place them at Minas Morgul (i.e., place a Minas Morgul site card next to them).

In the standard rules, you don't even have a pool. You select your characters and that's it -- duplicates go into the deck. The tournament rules only alter the standard rules in terms of how to reveal starting characters and how to determine which of your starting characters get shuffled into the deck. At no point do they even by implication allow you to find characters from your collection that were not in your starting pool and place them in your deck.