Data:The Shire Countryside (3R113)/Collection
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As a card from the Realms of the Elf-Lords set, Data:The Shire Countryside (3R113) was primarily gained through [standard booster packs | as a card in the XXX starter deck | direct purchase from the XXX product | explanation of promotional distribution], or sometimes as [a random rare in a starter deck]. It is a [brief description of usage], so its demand is [enormous | relatively high | average | relatively low | nonexistent].
- As a Rare, The Shire Countryside has a 1 in 40 (~2.5%) chance of being present in any RotEL booster pack, and a 3 in 40 (~7.5%) chance of being in any RotEL starter deck.
- Foil versions of Movie-era Rare cards were randomly selected to be inserted into booster packs at a rate of 1 out of 26 packs (~3.8% of packs). This means any given RotEL booster pack had a 1 in 3,146 (~0.096%) chance of containing a foil The Shire Countryside.
- Realms of the Elf-lords was printed (both standard and foil) in 5 languages other than English: German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish.
All known card variants (including those listed above) are below:
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English • Nonfoil | [The below was written before the Decipher notes were found.]
As far as we can tell, Decipher never recorded their reasoning behind why they burned down The Shire Countryside... ...but we can make some educated guesses. Really, it's got to come down to the ease of which this can be used to just wipe the whole board of wounds. Shire is already among the only cultures that are able to handle burdens, but the ease with which that burden removal can be turned to healing means that often Frodo will intentionally load up on more burdens than he needs just to be able to fuel the healing engine. That’s clearly over the line. Here, we've made the card unique (preventing 4x stacking) and placed a phase limit on the trigger to keep it from being so gratuitous. To compensate, one burden can now be used to heal two separate companions, meaning that if you want to take advantage of what the Countryside has to offer, you'll have to take a leisurely stroll rather than a mad dash. Decipher Notes: It has been determined that <span class="tooltip">The Shire Countryside (3R113)START_WIDGET"'-f42642fc4d96b085END_WIDGET</span> will need to be added to the X-list as well. It was the key card in a deck using <span class="tooltip">Erland, Dale Counselor (11R30)START_WIDGET"'-2089781c59b6447dEND_WIDGET</span> which allowed the Free Peoples player to overwhelm every minion and heal all companions in play every move. The Shire Countryside has been on the Rules Committee's radar for a long time. Healing non-Shire companions is not 'in culture' for the Shire culture. When we originally decided on the changes to the X-list for Shadows, The Shire Countryside was on the borderline of being too strong, but we had hoped to keep it in the environment. Additional playtesting proved otherwise. |
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German • Nonfoil | |
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German • Foil | |
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French • Nonfoil | |
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French • Foil | |
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Italian • Nonfoil | |
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Italian • Foil | |
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Spanish • Nonfoil | |
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Spanish • Foil | |
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Polish • Nonfoil | |
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Polish • Foil |
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