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| {{SplashImage|LOTR-EN10S067.0_card.jpg|{{Card|Ulaire Cantea, Thrall of the One}} is one of several {{Nazgul}} from set 10 with skirmish special abilities that use healing the minion as a cost.|500px|Ulaire Cantea, Thrall of the One (10R67)}}
| | [[File:LOTR-EN10S067.0_card.jpg|frame|right|{{Card|Ulaire Cantea, Thrall of the One}} is one of several Nazgûl from set 10 with skirmish special abilities that use healing the minion as a cost.]] |
| | | '''Enduring''' is a non-numeric [[loaded keyword]] introduced in set 8, [[Siege of Gondor]]. It also appeared on cards in [[Reflections]], [[Mount Doom]], and [[The Wraith Collection]], and is mentioned on two sites in [[War of the Ring Block]]. |
| '''Enduring''' is a [[loaded keyword]] introduced in set 8, [[Siege of Gondor]]. It is a synonym for the following game text: "'''this character is strength +2 for each wound on this character'''". It frequently appears on characters with above-average vitality, such as {{Card|Sauron, The Lord of the Rings}} or {{Card|Shelob, Her Ladyship}}, which can respectively gain up to +8 or +14 strength from the enduring keyword alone. | |
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| One of the more famous set of enduring minions are the "enduring {{Nazgul}}" introduced in the [[Mount Doom]] set. Each included the enduring keyword as well as an ability that would heal the {{Nazgul}} in exchange for an effect. The keyword was not exclusive to minions, however: {{C|Gondor}} [[Wraith]]s in particular utilize it.
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| Enduring had a large impact on how decks dealt with minions. In earlier formats, an archery or wounding deck would often have a constant trickle of wounding effects (from [[Archer]]s or automatic exertions such as from {{Card|Rider's Mount}}), and the Free Peoples player would augment the trickle with a surge of targeted wounds to disable individual obstacles as needed. With enduring minions however, a trickle of wounds becomes a liability, and "almost" killing a minion goes from an unfortunate gap to a massive swing in power. As a result, decks needed to pivot away from attrition-based decks to effects capable of one-shotting minions, either through discarding them outright ({{Card|Stand Against Darkness}}), killing them outright ({{Card|Stone Tower}}), erasing their game text ({{Card|Phial of Galadriel, Star-glass}}), or smothering their strength for an overwhelm ({{Card|Cirdan}}). As these effects worked equally well on non-enduring minions, the [[Power Creep]] of the ecosystem thus began to rachet up.
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| Enduring is one of several later mechanics that "flip the script" on whether an effect is desirable or not. Normally, wounds would of course be considered a bad thing, but enduring minions want as many as they can hold. This has an ongoing impact on card design, as any card that uses exertion as a cost must now be evaluated over whether it unduly enables overly-easy enduring pumping, as {{Card|Raider Halberd}} famously does for {{Card|Castamir of Umbar}}.
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| |text=For each wound on a character with the enduring keyword, that character is strength +2.}} | | |text=For each wound on a character with the enduring keyword, that character is strength +2.}} |
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| ==List of Cards with Enduring== | | ==Cards with Enduring== |
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| | This includes {{Card|Seasoned Leader}}, the one card that grants a minion Enduring. |
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| |filter= {{HasKeyword|Enduring}} AND {{PromoFilter}} | | |filter= CR.GameText LIKE '%Enduring.%' AND {{PromoFilter}} |
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| ==Cards that Interact with Enduring== | | ==Cards that interact with Enduring== |
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| | This includes cards that interact with Enduring without granting it, as well as the two sites from [[War of the Ring]] block with abilities that cannot be used by Enduring characters. |
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| |filter= {{UsesKeyword|Enduring}} AND {{PromoFilter}} | | |filter= CR.GameText LIKE '%Enduring %' OR CR.GameText LIKE '%Enduring)%' AND {{PromoFilter}} |
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| {{Loaded Keyword Table}} | | {{Loaded Keyword Table}} |
