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The Saga of Elendil (1R114)

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<WRAP 500px db rightalign>[[lotr01114|Template:cards:lotr01114.jpg]]</WRAP> <WRAP 480px db2 leftalign> | Set:| The Fellowship of the Ring| | Kind:| Free People| | Culture:| Gondor| | Twilight:| 1| | Card Type:| Condition| | Vitality:| +1| | Game Text:| Tale. Bearer must be a ![GONDOR] companion. Skirmish: Discard this condition to make bearer strength +2.| | Lore:| //From out of the depths of the Sea, from the foundered land of Númenor, came Elendil to Middle-earth to found the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor.//| | Rarity:| R| </WRAP>

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General Strategy

The Saga of Elendil, and its brethren card The Tale of Gil-Galad, is a unique, vitality-increasing condition. The first to cards to increase vitality in the trading card game, The Tale of Gil-Galad and The Saga of Elendil also offer a !skirmish !special !action text to discard the condition for a !strength +2 bonus. Endurance of Dwarves, the [Dwarven] variant, is non-unique, but only provides a strength +1 boost.

The Saga of Elendil is often played on Aragorn, Ranger of the North, where the added vitality can result in an extra **!defender** bonus (or, bearing Aragorn's Bow, an extra directed wound during the !archery phase). That said, counting on The Tale of Gil-Galad, The Saga of Elendil, or Endurance of Dwarves for exertion based !special abilities is a risky strategy. Discarding the !condition on an !exhausted companion means instant death, making cards like Hate and Orc Patrol potentially devastating.

Strong Versus...

 * Best in concordance with characters with exertion special abilities, such as Legolas, Greenleaf or Aragorn, Ranger of the North
 * Additional vitality helpful against grind or !archery !Shadow strategies

Weak Versus...

 * !Condition discarding, particularly in concert with directed wounding/exhausting
 * Directed wounding

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