From:  Chad Martin <chad@t...> 
Date:  Mon Jul 15, 2002  5:08 am
Subject:  Rulings Digest #35

In Rulings Digest #34 I ruled:

"I play "Pallando the soul-keeper" as permanent event. At some part of
the game my oppenent plays an agent with less than 5 mind and I respond
by Withdrawn to Mordor and discarding Pallando. Am I right in supposing
that the Agent is eliminated?

*** Agents played as hazards are hazards. Agents played as characters 
are minions. You cannot use Pallando the Soul-keeper to eliminate a 
hazard agent."

This ruling is incorrect. The agent is, in fact, eliminated in this 
case. Minions are cards with a rusted purple background. They can be 
agents or not. Minion agents can be played as characters or hazards. 
No matter how they are played, they are still minons.
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Clarification regarding the Middle-earth: The Balrog rules booklet:

The ME:BA rulesbook clearly defines what it considers new rules and what 
is considered a rules summary. Since this is delineated in the 
rulebook, the rules written in the Rules Summary section will not 
override those rules in the ME:LE rulebook when conflicts arise, though 
the ME:BA rulebook is a newer printing.

The main result of this is that followers of Wizards/Ringwraiths/Balrogs 
that aren't "Ringwraith Followers" by be influenced by an opponent, 
contrary to the ME:BA rules booklet.

Chad Martin
chad@t...
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