LOTR01205

Beauty Is Fading (1R205)

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<WRAP 500px db rightalign>[[lotr01205|Template:cards:lotr01205.jpg]]</WRAP> <WRAP 480px db2 leftalign> | Set:| The Fellowship of the Ring| | Kind:| Shadow| | Culture:| Wraith| | Twilight:| 5| | Card Type:| Event| | Game Text:| Maneuver: Exert a Nazgul to discard a Free Peoples possession or Free Peoples condition. If you can spot no such card, discard an ally or companion (except the Ring-bearer) instead.| | Lore:| //"'...the Three will fail, and many fair things will fade and be forgotten.'"//| | Rarity:| R| </WRAP>

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General Strategy

A twilight restrictive card, Beauty is Fading is one of the few cards in the game that can discard a companion (with Fierce in Despair being another well known method) from play. That said, Beauty is Fading suffers from a huge twilight cost. It's restrictive twilight cost falls in line with its "Swiss Army Knife" ability to discard anything of the Shadow player's choosing. With the cheapest Nazgul at [2] !twilight (with Morgul Gates), the !twilight pool would need [7] to play the card, and the option of discarding a companion or ally is only achieved without a Free Peoples condition or possession in play.

Ulaire Cantea, Lieutenant of Dol Guldur, Stricken Dumb, Fear, and to a lesser extent, Loathsome, Ulaire Cantea, Faster than Winds, Mastered By Madness, and Black Dart are all more cost-effective Nazgul cards with more direct results. Of course, Grond, Hammer of the Underworld is the best card for dismantling a Free Peoples player's support cards.

Strong Versus...

 * Nearly unparalleled ability to discard a card from play

Weak Versus...

 * Very expensive - at [5] twilight a !shadow player could play another large minion, or several smaller minions