CoE weekly Rulings/Clarifications 15

1. Since there is no actual rarity in MEBA, can you use Great Secrets Buried There on, let's say Remains of Thangorodrim against a non-Blrog player?

*** No. The whole idea of requiring you to provide an uncommon under-deep site for them to play the hidden item is to provide them with a site that they can actually reach from a surface site.

2. Tookish Blood's alternate effect prevents a Hobbit from being discarded, right? Assuming Tookish Blood was played, what if Bilbo with the One Ring rolls a corruption check equal to his CP total? Since Bilbo won't be discarded, will the One Ring be discarded or will it stay in play?

*** The One Ring will stay in play.

3. I play Spying Out the Land during my org phase, and my opponent reveals a Cave-drake, a Cave Worm, and a Covetous Thoughts. Even though he only revealed 1 Cave-Drake to me, can he play multiple Cave- Drakes?

*** Yes.

4. My opponent plays a Cave-Drake. I play Flatter a Foe in response. He reveals Foolish Words in response. Is there time between the resolution of Foolish Words to Marvels Told it before the Flatter begins to Resolve?

*** No. You cannot target a card that hasn't resolved yet unless it specifically cancels that card like Many Sorrows Befall. Marvels Told is not the same.

5. My hazard block has an agent in it. I also include an agent in the deck to potentially be used as a character. Does it matter which of the two I use as an agent depending on which one I draw? Do I have to be specific about which is to be used as which?

*** CRF Agents: "When constructing a ringwraith [or FW] deck, agents are always considered characters." When you play them from your hand, you then

choose to play them as a character or agent. To answer your questions specifically: no and no.

6. I play Uvatha the Ringwraith at the Variag Camp to influence the Variags in during the same turn. If my characters happen to be there during the Org phase (having moved there last turn), does this override the "cannot be included with other characters unless at a Darkhaven" rule?

*** No. One of the companies must move away.

7. Since I can play Uvatha the Rigwraith at any site in Khand, he is already at a non-Darkhaven site. How does this affect his movement to another non-Darkhaven site? Since he is already out there, is a mode card required? Does he have to go to a Darkhaven before going somewhere else?

*** Ringwraiths may not use region movement as stated in the rules. He must move to a Darkhaven without the need of a mode card before attempting to move somewhere else.

8. Suppose I allow Foolish Words to resolve. Then we move to Flatter a Foe. Can I then interrupt Flatter a Foe to target the now resolved Foolish Words before I resolve Flatter a Foe?

*** No. Once the chain of effects starts resolving, you cannot add more cards to the chain or target cards in that chain until they have "all" resolved completely.

9. Do creatures played as the 2nd aa at an underdeeps site stay with the site until the site is discarded or returned to the location deck or are such creatures discarded after the aa is faced?

*** Creatures played as the 2nd auto attack at an under-deeps site are always discarded after the attack regardless of whether they were defeated or not.

10. Is the rule that forces the discard of a Ringwraith on a body check of 7 or 8 void when you got a Black Horse or Creature from Other Word?

Quoting a note from LE rule book page 59: "Note: This represents the Ringwraith's mount being eliminated."

*** Allies providing modes to Ringwraiths do not supercede the Ringwraith's "discard on a body check of 7 or 8" rule.

11. When you exhaust your play deck, does your discard pile immediately revert to become your play deck - or can you play cards like "Smoke Rings", "Mouth of Sauron" etc. to grab cards from your discard pile first? - this could result in cards moving from your discard pile into a formerly empty play deck, essentially not exhausting your play deck...

*** Your deck cycles immediately after the last card of your play deck is drawn.

12. If my minion company enters Rivendell, can I play Hounds of Sauron on a hero company there even though I cannot attack?

*** No, because if you can't attack the company, then you can't play Hounds of Sauron "in lieu of declaring an attack".

13. If I can play Hounds of Sauron, can my opponent play a resource to cancel the attack (such as Many Turns and Doublings) even though it is MY site phase and the attack is not CVCC?

*** No, because, as you said, it's not Company Versus Company Combat so your opponent cannot play resources during your turn to cancel the wolf attack.

14. "Rumour of Wealth": can a Dragon creature be played on a company that had previosly played a "Stealth" or "Hiding"? If not - why not? Which card effect has "priority"? [Thanks to Nigel Buckle for his answers to questions 14 & 15]:

*** Stealth protects the company for the whole TURN (card text for Stealth: No Creature Hazards maybe played on his company this turn). So you couldn't PLAY the dragon. Hiding is a little different, you can play the dragon, but the attack is automatically cancelled! There's no priority to work out - Rumor of Wealth allows you to play an extra hazard creature on a company in the site phase if an item is played - but any resource that has resolved and has an effect for the whole turn will still apply.

15. "Open to the Summons": is this card required to play an Agent as a character? Or just to play an Agent at a Darkhaven (if his/her Home Site is not that Darkhaven)? Or would you just use it to get the -1 Mind modifer?

*** You need Open to the Summons to play an agent in your starting company, or to play an agent at a Darkhaven. Otherwise you have to play the agent at their home site or at Bree.

16. If someone plays Bridge or other card that causes two moves for the company can you play more than one corruption card on the same character? (One on the first move and one on the second)

*** No. One corruption card per character per turn, not per movement/hazard phase.

17. Does Shadow of Mordor effect the hazard limit of the company that you just played on? (Since they drew the cards beforehand, not knowing what would befall them from drawing so many cards)

*** No.

18. Can I play Earcaraxe with Dragons Desolation at a ruins/lairs site in land such as Weather Top? Doesn't Earcaraxe live in the sea? I ask because Dragons Desolation was published before Earcaraxe (The Dragons expansion) does exist.

*** Yes you can.

19. When you play Hey!Come Merry Dol! and you travel subsequently through only one wilderness, the card text says it counts as zero wilderness (half the number of wildernesse and round down). Does this mean that you have no regions in your site path (so, just like travelling in the underdeeps)?

*** There would be no region type but the region names of the region of origin and region of destination would still exist along with the site type of the new site.

20. If a Call of Home is played and the target character fails the roll, can that character still transfer one item even if there is no legal character left in the company (i.e., everyone else is wounded)?

*** Yes. Call of Home item transferring is a different situation than item transferring when a character is eliminated by a body check. It's in the LE Companion and card text always over-rides(sp?) the rules when there's a conflict.