CoE weekly Rulings/Clarifications 10

1. Just want to clarify:  Agent do not get the -5 penalty when influencing cross alignments, right?

***Correct.

2. Can agents move from Dagorlad to Udun?

*** Only a minion player's agents and characters may move as if Dagorlad and Udun are adjacent regions.

3. Can I retrieve dragon factions from the discard pile with Parsimony of Seclusion or can I only retrieve hazard manifestations of dragons?

*** Eloquently answered by Andy Fredricksen but edited for length by yours truly: Nothing prevents a hazard from targeting a resource, and the Dragon factions are unique manifestations so yes.

4. Can I, as a minion, play The Ithil-Stone at Barad-dur?  If so, does everything apply to him?

*** Yes you can play it.  When playing cross-alignment items, all playability requirements must still be met (ie. Being at Barad-dur and doing the scout roll thing). The rest of the text on the item is ignored and the marshalling points are worth half (round up).

5. Doors of Night and Will of Sauron (plus long events) are in Play. Player A plays Twilight on Doors. Player B plays Doors of Night in response to Twilight. My understanding is that Doors cannot be duplicated. Therefore, in theabove scenario, Twilight causes Doors and the WOS(& long events) to go bye-bye and then the 2nd Doors comes into play (but w/no WOS,etc.) after the Twilight resolves.

*** A card that cannot be duplicated can be played when a copy is already in play only if the copy in play is currently being targeted by an effect that will discard it. Thus, Doors and WoS stay out.  Long live the doors!

6. Can a FW player declare he is playing a FW but does not reveal his FW?

*** Yes.

7. Can a FW player declare he is playing a FW but does not include his FW character card but still play stage resources and his FW-specific stage resources?

*** No.  A FW player must have at least one copy of the selected FW character in his/her deck.

8. A FW player must declare which FW he will be playing before the start ofa game, right? Can a FW player ask first his Wizard opponent which Wizard he will be playing before he declares which FW he will play?

*** A FW player must pre-determine, before the start of the tournament, which one of his/her FW decks will be assigned to face hero opponents, which one for minion opponents, and which one for a FW opponent.  There is no changing allowed from this pre-determination. Thus the blunt answers to the questions above are yes and no respectively.

9. Can I play Tidings of Bold Spies in response to something (anything)?

*** If the conditions of the card are met, yes.

b) How about an Ahunt, or Morder in Arms, for example?

*** Sure.

Note: you can influence things (etc.) away and you can reveal the identical card to help your attempt, but you cannot play it with your company if the attempt is succesfull (if it gives MP's). [CRF15, Rulings by term, Wizardhaven]

10. The working on Adunaphel states that "any" character can be tapped when Adunaphel is tapped as a permanent event.  Would that be restricted to the characters in the current company, or include any character in any company, including one's own?

*** Current opponent's company's movement/hazard phase only.

11. In minion vs. wiz, do minion dunadan, etc. benefit from Star of HighHope/Clear Skies/Sun?

*** Yes.