CoE weekly Rulings/Clarifications 6

1. For a Little Snuffler (or any creature) with body to be defeated, the body of each strike must be defeated, not just the prowess of the strike exceeded, correct?

*** Correct.

Unless the body of each strike of LS is defeated, no scout cards can be subsequently played that turn, correct?

*** Correct.  The body of all strikes of the attack must be defeated in order for the attack to be considered "defeated".

2. Dragon-Helm(Resource - Special Item) states: "Tap Dragon-Helm to cancel one attack by Dragons or Drakes."  Does this card mean tap to cancel an attack against the bearer, or against the bearer's company, or both?

*** An attack does not specify the defender but rather a company.  Only the strike(s) of the attack can specify a specific character.  Thus, you can tap Dragon-Helm to cancel one attack by Dragons or Drakes against the bearer's company.

3. Bane of the Ithtil-Stone does prevent a lucky search?

*** Yes.

4. Great Secrects states that the item is put aside and cannot be affected by anything. This does not prevent a MT targeting Great Secrets itself?

*** Correct.  CRF: "Host cards of cards off to the side can be targetted normally."

5. Looking at 'Belegaer' I read 'Elven Coast' (as far as I know that doesn't exist) instead of 'Elven Shores' (region number 48). Can I consider this one and the same region?

*** Yes.

6. My opponent tried to use Gandalf to influence Elrond away while he was at a haven, revealing his own copy of Elrond in the process while Elf-song was in play.  This wasn't necessary since I had -23 general influence at the time, of course, except that otherwise there's no way that the influence attempt could be successful, since my version couldn't be discarded.

*** Correct.  Gandalf could have made the attempt at influencing Elrond at a haven but it would fail due to Elf-song being in play.

7. Bane of the Ithil Stone only cancels effects allowing one to search through playdeck & discard pile.  I can still sideboard, correct?

*** Yes.  Bane does not change any sideboarding access.

8. Can Leaflock stop Ren's effect?

*** No.  Ren's effect does not target anything.

What if it's another company's hazard phase?

*** Still no.

9. Can I use Farmer Maggot to "move" w/o losing the Palantir (since bearer is not really moving)?

*** Yes. There are currently no generic "teleportation" rules that would link the Great-Road movement rule to this use of Farmer Maggot.

Can I use Sacrifice of Form and retain the Palantir of Elostirion "off to the side" and bring it back into play at a haven when my wizard comes back into play?

*** Yes.

10. If an assassin targets Bilbo at Bag-End and Farmer Maggot carts his butt off to the Old Forest, all attacks of the assassin are effectively cancelled and the assassin is discarded, even though the same assassin is keyeable to OF (i.e. the assassin is sort of "keyed" to bag end when he attacks there) correct??

*** The remaining attacks of the assassin are not rekeyable to the border-hold of Old Forest.  The remaining attacks are discarded without effect, but not cancelled.  The attack is still considered faced.

11. I had Doors of Night in play.  If he had played Gates of Morning, i would have responded by playing Morgul Night. Now, since, in responses, cards are resolved last to first, i say my morgul night would go into effect, THEN gates would cancel doors. My opponent however, disagreed, saying it wouldn't matter. What is the deal with reactions?

*** (From a list member): You would have been correct.  Unless explicitly specified otherwise, all cards resolve last in in, first out.  So, of DoN was in play, and your opponent went to play GoM during the MH phase, you could respond with Morgul Night.  Morgul Night would resolve (since DoN was still in play at the time) then Gates would come into play.  However, per the text on Gates of Morning, all hazard environments in play are discarded and all hazard environment effects are cancelled.  Once the stack starts resolving nothing can be added to it or responded to, so in essence you were right, but in the end, it didn't matter because once GoM resolved, Morgul Night and DoN would both be discarded.

12. The card text of Dragon's Breath states: ... Each character in the company being attacked must immediately face one strike equal to the attack's prowess.  Instead or using prowess against the strike, each character uses his body modified by +1 if he has a shield, by +1 is he has a helmet, and by +3 if he taps.  The target attack which follows receives +1 body  and -2 prowess.  Cannot be duplicated on a given attack.
Does this mean that "prowess" of defender is equal to body + conditions even w/o tapping (note the +3 to "prowess" if target taps)? i.e.  thorin faces dragon's breath, his prowess is 8 (his body).  Is that prowess modified to 8-3=5 if he decides not to tap and 8+3 if he does decide to tap?

*** Using alternative statistics in place of a character's prowess does not cancel the tapping/not-tapping prowess modifiers.  Thus, your Thorin example above is correct.

13. A character with prowess of 6  is using a weapon, doesn't matter which one, that raises prowess +2 to a maximum of 8.  That character is also in a company with 2 fellowships(or another prowess modifier).  Does the weapon modify prowess before the fellowships or after?  If the former, his prowess is 10,  the latter: 8

*** When there are multiple resources affecting prowess and/or body, weapon, shield, armour, and helmet  modifications are applied first, then the other resource effects are applied in the order chosen by the player controlling the character.