CoE weekly Rulings/Clarifications 8

1. If a Ringwraith company using Black Horses is in combat and the Black Horse of one Ringwraith is killed, the Ringwraith in question is returned to hand? And when the Black Horse of the leader Ringwraith is discarded, the whole company is discarded except the leader who is returned to hand?

*** Black Horse says, "Retun controller to your hand if Horse leaves play." When the Ringwraith that represents you is returned to your hand in this fashion, his/her Ringwraith followers are discarded along with the cards they control because "a Ringwraith follower must always be under the control of your Ringwraith...".

2. Aside from the Tournament Formats listed at the CoL Tourney Policy v. 3, Are the ff. also legal for sanctioned MECCG tourneys? I saw them at the Council of Bree webpage. Standard (The standard 2-deck any alignment tournament) Classic (Wizards, Dragons, Dark Minions) Classic Extended (Resources from ME:TW,ME:TD and ME:DM, hazards from all sets) Classic Restricted (Wizards and Dragons only) Pure Classic (Wizards only) Fallen Wizards only Minion only (hazards from all expansions) Booster Draft

*** These are all sanctionable formats in the view of the CoE.  Remember, any format is acceptable as long as all players involved agree with it. Btw, what's "ff"?

3. A Balrog player has in his hand Aiglos, Ancient Black Axe, High Helm, Sable Shield, 2 War-wolves, and Stabbing Tongue of Fire. The Balrog's company of 7 characters are at an untapped Under-leas. After facing the auto-attacks, all characters remain untapped. Can the Balrog's player play all the resources above during the site phase then as long as there are untapped characters or not?

*** No.  The most you could play with the best marshalling point result is: Aiglos (taps site), Ancient Black Axe (instead of your free minor item as per underdeep rules), and the following 3 even when the site is tapped: 2 War-wolf, Stabbing Tongue of Fire (on the Balrog only of course).

4. a) A sage character has a Lure of Senses played on him. He taps and plays MT to remove the Lure. If he makes the cc, will his cp total be 2 or 0?

*** The character's corruption point total will be 0 as the Lure will be removed before the corruption check as per the order of resolution on the Marvels Told card.  The corruption check will still be at -2 due to MT so a 2 (or "moosing it") will still corrupt the character.

b) A sage character with 0 cps plays a MT. If the modified roll is equal to 0, will he be discarded?

*** A modified result of 0 will still be equal to the character's corruption point total.  The appropriate discard/eliminate/tap action is applied.

5. Regarding RETURN OF THE KING permanent event: a) Does Aragorn have to tap to use the card?

*** No.  Tap a character to play a card only if it is an item, ally, or faction, or if the card specifically requires you to do so.

b) Does playing the card tap the site?

*** No.  Tap a site to play a card only if it is an item, ally, or faction, or if the card specifically requires you to do so.

c) Can it be played at anytime during the turn, or only during the Site Phase?

*** It can be played anytime that Aragorn is "at Minas Tirith".  Note that he is not "at Minas Tirith" if he is moving to there during the Movement/Hazard phase.

6. Is it legal for a hero company to get to Mount Doom by going around through Nurn?  I.e., I'm in Bandit Lair (5 regions away) or Lorien (6 regions away), discard 1 (or 2 if trying from Lorien) Crams and run straight to the Mount.

*** Any movement through Nurn to reach a site in Gorgoroth in one turn in legal.

7. When a minion is holding as a trophy, a creature with a * (i.e. it counts for marshalling points), does it count for marshalling points while it is held as a trophy?

*** A *-creature does count for MP's if it's being used as a trophy.  Any creature being used as a trophy has already been defeated and thus will go to the appropriate discard or marshalling point pile when it is required to leave the character carrying it.

8. I was looking at Whispers of Rings and came up with two questions. First, it is a minion resource and therefore can not be played in a hero deck - right?  Second, is there a hero version of this card?  Is it Rumours of Rings?

*** Yes, yes, and yes.

9. If I have multiple orc factions under one leader, are the two points I get faction or miscellaneous points?

*** The extra points provided from stacking certain factions on a leader are faction marshalling points.