CoE weekly Rulings/Clarifications 3

1. when corsairs keyed to cardolan or cave worm keyed to high pass are considered keyed to wilderness, right?

*** No.

they can be cancelled with elven cloak, yes?

*** No.

for example, ice drake keyed to gundabad against minions is detainment, but keyed to angmar is real, right.

*** Yes.

keyed to a region named angmar, but angmar itself is a shadowland so can be cancelled with shadow cloak. is this right?

*** No - the rule question here is in the MELE rulebook, it says ALL attacks against minions keyed to Darkholds or Dark-domains, by type, or by name, are detainment. This is totally different from the "keyed to Cardolan, thus it's keyed to wilderness" statement. (Thanks to Jason Klank for this clarification)

2. can perm event be played on an ally? example: when you know more on tom bombadil is ok, right? if he can do rituals, he can do perms.

*** Skill specific cards can affect affect allies as long as they are not permanent events that are "playable on a character" because allies are only considered characters during combat.

3. character with shadowfax can move any extra movement hazard phase. shadowfax says with one character or character and a hobbit. allies do not count as characters except for combat, so one character + shadowfax + noble hound is ok to use shadowfax's ability, right?

*** No. CRF 15: "Errata: Cannot use his special ability if another ally is in the company"

4. come at need says ally ;must be able to be attacked. goldberry - no. nenselde - no. but treebeard, yes. he cannot face auto attacks but he can be attacked in other ways so he can come at need, right?

*** Yes.

5. Spying Out the Land says that your opponent may show you hazards from his hand, and during your movement/hazard phase, may play ONLY those hazards. Now, does this refer to those SPECIFIC pieces of cardboard (the three cards that he shows you)? Or to "the card". If he shows me a Nameless Thing, and draws the other two during M/H phase, can he drop all three on me (assuming playability)?

*** Cards do not have memory of how they were played, or revealed in this instance. Therefore, using your example, your opponent would be able to play as many Nameless things on you as he/she pleases as long as they have a way of getting more into their hand.