Farmer Maggot edition:
CoE 19 - Min wrote:a) If my company "teleports" using Farmer Maggot against an assassin's attack, what happens with the
two remaining attacks ?
*** They fizzle.
b) What if you use a card such as Forewarned is Forearmed or Unabated in Malice to cancel the cancelling
ability of Farmer Maggot? Does this cancel Farmer Maggot?
*** Cancelling an attack is an additional after-effect of Farmer Maggot. Just because an attack can't be cancelled
due to certain cards, doesn't mean that you can't teleport with Farmer Maggot. The attack won't be cancelled, as in
the case of Forewarned at Ettenmoors and Unabated, but the company will have already teleported, thus they are
no longer there to face the attack.
The rules do not require that the company still be at a particular site after the attack has already been created and is currently being faced. The player and/or Netrep appear to be abusing Farmer Maggot.
Farmer Maggot is from Against the Shadow. The hero resources in Against the Shadow were designed to enhance Wizard versus Ringwraith games. Farmer Maggot is intended to be used to escape from your opponent's companies. It is not intended to be used to escape from an Assassin, or escape after Unabated is revealed on-guard, or to avoid an uncancellable attack, or anything like that. The card text and rules do not provide for this use case.
Site Phase: (2) If the site has an automatic-attack, it attacks the company. The attack is resolved normally (see pages 28-34).
The rules on the site phase do not require the company to still be at the site in order to resolve the automatic attack. And Section 7 Combat on MELE pages 28-34 does have any requirement for the company to be at a particular site to face an attack.
If Farmer Maggot is used against an Assassin, they will still have to face the 2nd and 3rd attacks. If Farmer Maggot is used on an uncancellable attack, the company will still face the (automatic) attack because the card was not designed to be used this way.
CoE 58 - Martin wrote:So, Farmer Maggot vs. Unabated in Malice (card text below):
Galdor is at the Barrow-downs on which an Unabated in Malice is
played. Farmor Maggot is in play. Galdor goes in, faces the attack and
instead of fighting it he lets Farmer Maggot take him to Old Forest.
Farmer Maggot states the attack is now cancelled. Unabated in Malice
states in return that the first attempt to cancel the attack instead
cancel the Unabated. So IMHO Galdor finds himself still facing the 1@8
undead attack. Is this correct?
*** That is correct, though the movement effect of Farmer Maggot still
resolves successfully. Consider it a parting shot by the Barrow Wights.
This is correct but it should have addressed the previous ruling.
CoE 116 - Alfano wrote:(5) Dave Barton asked: If you teleport using Farmer Maggot while facing an auto-attack, and you end up
at a different site that also has an auto-attack (e.g., weathertop), what happens (assuming you want to do
stuff at weathertop)? There seem to be three options:
(a) You may play stuff immediately. You've already faced your auto-attacks for the turn, so there's no need
to face more.
(b) You must face the Weathertop auto-attacks, since you have not dealt with the auto-attacks at your
current site.
(c) You may do nothing. You had your one chance at entering a site, and you took it, but the ability to
play stuff during the site phase depends on the site that you actually enter. Since you didn't enter Weather
top (and it's too late for that now), you cannot do anything.
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(b) is correct.
This ruling is incorrect. The site phase is a procedure. Once you have proceeded to the next step there is no allowance in the rules for returning to a previous step. And since you have not faced the automatic attack at your current site, you cannot play items at that site.
MELE p. 94 wrote:Site Phase
In the order you decide (i.e., you decide which of your companies goes first, second, etc.), each of your companies may:
• do nothing or
• follow this procedure:
1) Enter its site.
2) If the site has an automatic-attack, it attacks the company. The attack is resolved normally (see pages28-34).
3) If the site is untapped, a character in the company may attempt to play an item, ally, or faction that is "playable" at that site. Tap the character and the site.
The company can only play an item, ally, or faction "at that site" which is the one where the "entered."
Again, Farmer Maggot is not intended to be used to avoid a normal automatic attack.