1. King Under the Mountain can only be played if 'his company' defeated the attack. Does that mean that he had to be in the company that defeated the attack, or is it legit if Fram kills the dragon solo and then Dain joins him the next turn and tries to take all the credit?
The effect or "glory" of defeating the dragon at-home manifestation, is not a card so it cannot affect Dain's company that joins solo Fram. The potential dwarf king must have been in the company that faced the attack.
2. The text on Open to the Summons states that this card can be played in lieu of a minor item with a starting company, but then it must be revealed when companies are determined as if it was a starting character. Does this allow me to play an agent as a starting minion character, or just let's me bring the agent in at a darkhaven once I draw him?
Play Open to the Summons during your character draft as you would a character, then play your agent character afterwards like another character. That's two character draft slots for one agent character.
You may also play this card on a minion company and wait to bring in your agent character at a Darkhaven from your hand later on in the game.
3. Strider's card text says "Unique. Manifestation of Aragorn II. You may bring Aragorn II into play with Strider's company, removing Strider from the game and automatically transferring all cards on Strider to Aragorn II. +3 direct influence against the Rangers of the North faction [...]"
a) Here are my questions about this first effect : - does the replacement have to be done during the organization phase or can it be done during any turn phase (untap, movement, site, end of turn) ?
b) Does it count as one in the limit of one character per turn?
4. a) Return of the King cannot be played on Strider as it can only be played on Aragorn II (even if Strider is a manifestation of Aragorn II), as well for all the Aragorn II specific resource card : RIGHT or WRONG?
b) Then, about the second effect "[...]Tap Strider to search your discard pile for any one item, ally, or faction playable at his current site-the site must be in Arthedain, Cardolan, Rhudaur, or The Shire". I guess that it can be done only during the site phase, not during any other phase : am I wrong?
I think that such resource card will be played immediately with Strider. But a friend of mine think that he can keeps it in its hand or even put it back in his deck (???) then reshuffle it ... is it ok or not?
5. Does Bane of the Ithil Stone stop Revealed to All Watchers and/or Eyes of Mandos?
6. The Mouth minion character card's text said : "Return The Mouth to your hand when Mouth of Sauron is played". Is it possible that Mouth of Sauron creature attacks a company where The Mouth minion character is in and so discard it? What about playing Mouth of Sauron as a short-event? Does the return-to-your-hand effect applies?
7. When you halve the hazard limit to retrieve hazards from your sideboard, can it go down to 1?
8. Can hazard long events be revealed legally as on-guard cards?
9. When a card such as River or Lost in Free Domains is played which states that "it [the company] may do nothing at the site during its site phase," does this mean the player can't even play permanent events like, say, Gates of Morning? The rationale for the question was that the company isn't doing it: it's not a card that uses a character's skill or something a character is attempting to play. However, (and I didn't remember this reasoning during the game) I don't think even perm events like Gates would be allowed because nothing can be played in the site phase unless the company enters the site, and the company can't do this because it "may do nothing." But this wouldn't prevent the player from playing said events during the end of turn phase, right?
10. Enchanted Stream: played on a moving company, states "the company cannot voluntarily split or move to a new site unless it taps all of its untapped characters to a max of two during its organization phase. " Does the site the company's currently moving to count as "a new site" and mean, therefore that the company's bounced back since they hadn't done the tapping during the org phase for this turn?
11. Can FW Radagast only come in at his home site (Rhosgobel)? Or is there a "Rivendell" equivalent for FWs?
12. FW characters: can hero characters use minion skill cards and vice versa? E.g. Could Eomer (a warrior) use Bold Thrust?
13. The MELE rules-book states on p. 76: "There are also certain cards [...] your play group may not want to use." One of them is Many sorrows befall. How are those "optional" restrictions handled in tournaments ? Are they applied or not applied ? Am I allowed to use MSB against a minion player ?
14. Does the target of a Plague have to do the roll too along with the other affected characters in his/her company?
15. Frenzy of Madness states: Playable on a Shadow-hold not in Gorgoroth, Udun, Nurn or imlad Morgul. Can it be played at Under-deep Shadow-holds?
16. Can a hero company attack a covert minion company, or vice versa?
17. Also I was wondering if a character can just discard an item vs. storing it?
18. How much kill MPs do minions get from a Wizard eliminated due to CvCC?
19. Can a hero company successfully cancel a CvCC attack by Troll/Orc minion company using Dark Quarrels if they have Blackbole in their company?
20. Do global minion events affect heroes and vice versa?