From: Chad Martin <chad@t...> Date: Mon Oct 14, 2002 1:47 am Subject: [NetRep] Rulings Digest #42
In Rulings Digest #41, I said:
*** According to the Council of Lorien tournament policy, you may bring two decks of the same alignment (Hero, Minion, Fallen-Wizard or Balrog) to a tournament. One deck is for use against Hero opponents, and the other is for use against Minion and Balrog opponents. You may choose which deck is used against Fallen-Wizards, but the deck so chosen must not change throughout the duration of the tournament.
Jean-Paul Keulen was kind enough to point out that I was incorrect above, and that Balrogs are just considered another minion type for deck construction. This means you can bring a Ringwraith and a Balrog deck to a tournament legally. -------- I had 6 Nazgul Permanent events and I tapped Khamul , my opponent was left with 2 cards in hand (it was mov/haz phase vs company with low mind - Ioreth and Wacho). And this phase was over, my opponent drew cards to have 8 in hand again and I wanted to switch to another mov. / haz phase. But my opponent wanted to play marvels told on Ioreth Before I could do something against the new company with my hazards (tap Adunaphel in this case). Is it ok ? Can anyone play cards after he drew anything to have 8 at the end of phase / turn ?
*** As Wim Heemskerk pointed out:
(CRF, Turn Sequence R, M/H phase, general):
"Annotation 25a: A company's movement/hazard phase is concluded when a moving company removes its site of origin and both players agree to reconcile (discard down to/draw up to) their hand sizes. No resources (and obviously no hazards) can be played, and no resource effects can be activated, until the site phase or until both players have drawn cards for the movement of a following company. " -------- For example can Saruman play Wizard River Horses at the same turn he took it from discard ?
*** Yes, because Saruman can bring back Wizards River-horses at the beginning of the end of turn phase, so there is still time in that phase to play other resources, including the Wizards River-horses that Saruman recycled. -------- Can company that contains Elf, Dwarf and/or Dunadan play allies of Orc or Troll?
*** Yes. CRF, Rulings by Term, Ally: # Allies can be healed as if they were characters. Otherwise, allies are only considered characters for the purposes of combat and playing skill cards.
Company composition rules apply only to characters, as per the ME:LE rulebook. -------- Re: Sauron and The Lidless Eye Somehow I always assumed that as these cards are manifestations of each other, you can only play with three of them in total (for example, 2x Sauron and 1x Lidless Eye). Would make sense as these cards are comparable to a ringwraith, of which you can also have just three.
*** Sauron and The Lidless Eye are non-unique permanent events, so you may have three of each of them in a deck. There are no restrictions on having different manifestations of cards in your deck, assuming the deck is otherwise legal. -------- From the crf:
Marvels Told May be played during the site phase by a character in another company, as if he were in the company resolving their site phase.
So Ioreth can play Marvels Told during any site phase.
*** This is true as long as she has entered her site before the company upon whom she's playing the Marvels Told. CRF, Rulings by Phase, Site Phase, General:
# A company may not play any resource during the site phase until they have faced all automatic-attacks, unless that resource directly affects an automatic-attack. Removing an automatic-attack does not directly affect it, although cancelling does. -------- If you reveal a creature on-guard at a site, does the company face the auto-attack first, or the creature?
*** The company faces the automatic attack first. -------- Can Tom Bombadil tap to cancel hazards on a non-moving company in his regions?
*** No. -------- If your opponent is playing as Sauron, can you halve hazard limits (to access the sideboard) in the untap phase as if his avatar is in play once his/her Sauron manifestation hits the table?
*** CRF, Rulings by Term, Sideboard: * You may access your sideboard when your opponent plays The Lidless Eye as if he had revealed his Ringwraith.
I am officially extending this CRF ruling to apply to Sauron, as well. -------- The "any" debate still rages. I apologize for the delay. We hope to get it resolved soon.
Chad Martin chad@t... Official Council of Elrond NetRep http://www.mdi.net/~chscable/elrond.htm Assisted by: Nigel Buckle, Wim Heemskerk and Brian Wong