Editing Suffered Much Loss (10U35)

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[[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]] is a {{C|Isengard}} [[Condition]] from the [[Mount Doom]] set.

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= Strategy =
'''Suffered Much Loss''' is the only {{C|Isengard}} card in [[King Block]]. It's a strange [[combo piece]], meant to allow players to revive their [[Towers Block]] [[Uruk Beatdown]] decks in [[Movie Block]]. While it's rarely played in Movie Block, that's the only significant [[format]] where it's useful at all, since there's no other format where Suffered Much Loss and the specific [[uruk-hai]] [[minion]]s it enables are legal with a site path that lacks [[battleground]] [[site]]s.

[[The Two Towers|Set 4]] had a number of cards meant to encourage an [[uruk-hai]] deck focused on [[Beatdown|beating down]] the Freeps player at [[Battleground]] [[site]]s. The main highlights were {{Card|Advance Uruk Patrol}}, {{Card|Ferocity}}, {{Card|Uruk Assault Band}}, and {{Card|Uruk Vanguard}}. Most [[site number]]s in [[Towers Block]] had at least one possible site that was a battleground, and all site 5s were battlegrounds, so these cards were fairly reliable, especially if you let the opponent take the lead on the [[Site Path|site path]] and forced them to go to your sites. However, [[King Block]]'s site path had no battlegrounds at all, which quietly [[Nerf|nerf]]ed these key cards in that deck. In formats using the King Block site path, like [[Movie Block]] and [[King Standard]], [[Uruk Beatdown]] is very rarely played.

Suffered Much Loss, the only {{C|Isengard}} card of King Block, was meant to address that, at least in part. It's a bit more trouble to get it into play than to simply play battlegrounds in your [[adventure deck]], but at least it's something. Once you have it in play, those cards get their abilities back! Sort of! Unfortunately, it doesn't work on [[Site Control|sites you've controlled]], so it's still not enabling the larger bonuses on {{Card|Advance Uruk Patrol}} and {{Card|Uruk Assault Band}}. And, because Suffered Much Loss is a [[condition]], so it's much easier for your opponent to [[Condition Removal|remove]], plus it gets in the way of using {{Card|Saruman's Power}}. +1 strength when you have [[initiative]] is a nice bonus, but {{C|Isengard}} doesn't have a good way to take initiative if your opponent doesn't give it to you, and the big uruk beatdown minions have some [[cultural enforcement]] that makes multicultural decks tricky. On top of all of this, in the meantime the [[meta]] of Movie Block had become much more hostile to single huge skirmishers, so an empowered {{Card|Uruk Vanguard}} just wasn't the existential threat that it had been before. Ultimately, Uruk Beatdown in [[Movie Block]] ended up weaker than Uruk Beatdown in [[Towers Standard]].

In [[Shadows|set 11]] and thereafter, there are many cards in all of the new Shadow cultures that get bonuses from being at [[battleground]]s. And, since Suffered Much Loss's main effect has no [[cultural enforcement]], you could play it to enable any culture's cards. However, none of these cards were especially strong, and the new post-Shadows site path also introduced many new battleground sites that could be played at any site number. As a result, Suffered Much Loss wasn't necessary.

= Strengths and Weaknesses =
== Synergizes With... ==

* [[Uruk-hai]] from [[The Two Towers]] that got bonuses from being at a [[battleground]] site. Specifically, {{Card|Advance Uruk Patrol}}, {{Card|Ferocity}}, {{Card|Uruk Assault Band}}, and {{Card|Uruk Vanguard}}.
* There are many cards in [[Shadows]] or thereafter that get bonuses from spotting or being at [[battleground]] sites, notably {{Card|Rallying Orc}} and {{Card|Whistling Death}}. This format has plenty of battleground sites, however.

== Strong Versus... ==

* This card exists specifically to make up for the lack of battlegrounds in [[King Block]]. Other [[format]]s generally have enough battleground sites to make it unnecessary.

== Weak Versus... ==

* [[Movie Block]] is very hostile to single large skirmishers. {{Card|Elendil, the Tall}} and {{Card|Durin III}} can often win a skirmish with the uruk beatdown minions with one [[pump]] or less, and {{Card|Cirdan, the Shipwright}} and {{Card|Eowyn, Lady of Ithilien}} are tailor-made to wreck large minions.
* [[Choke]]. Expensive minions always have difficulty getting any [[Value|value]] against choke decks.
* [[Condition Removal]]. Once your opponent realizes what you're doing, they'll generally immediately target this card.

= Rulings =
Suffered Much Loss does not make [[Site Control|sites you control]] into battlegrounds, because it only affects sites that are on the adventure path and not controlled sites. It cannot give {{Card|Advance Uruk Patrol}} its +4 strength bonus, or {{Card|Uruk Assault Band}} its +6 strength bonus or immunity to wounds on sites that not are battlegrounds from their own game text. (Note that [[King Block]] has no battleground sites.)

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