Editing Mount

'''Mount''' is an [[Item Class]], and thus a [[Loaded Keyword]]. Mounts are [[possession]] cards that represent large animals that [[character]]s can ride, such as horses, [[Warg|wargs]], and [[Fell Beast (6U83)|fouler things]]. A character who is currently [[bear]]ing a '''mount''' possession is '''mounted'''.

The horsemen of {{Card|Rohan}} [[culture]] have the bulk of the [[Free Peoples]] mounts and cards that interact with mounts, although a handful of mostly unique mounts appear in other cultures, including {{Card|Asfaloth}}, {{Card|Bill the Pony}}, {{Card|Shadowfax}}, and {{Card|Brego, Loyal Steed}}. On the Shadow side, {{Card|Isengard}} has a whole '''[[Warg-rider]]''' [[orc]] [[Subculture|subculture]] with its own exclusive wargs, but they also appear in other cultures. {{C|Wraith}} culture has a handful of black horses and {{Card|Fell Beast}}s, {{Card|Raider}} [[Southron]]s have their {{Card|Mumak}}il, {{C|Orc}} culture has its own wargs like {{Card|Relentless Warg}} that play on any relatively low-strength orc, and {{Card|Gothmog's Warg}} is an odd wolf out.

Mounts have had a number of shared gimmicks over the years. [[Fellowship Block]] mounts like {{Card|Black Steed}} are largely [[strength]] boosters, but are discarded at [[Underground]] [[site]]s. In that block, most site 4s and the only site 5 ({{Card|The Bridge of Khazad-Dum}}) are underground, making these cards somewhat unreliable, limiting their popularity.

Mounts were a larger part of [[Towers Block]], with the addition of {{C|Rohan}} culture. Most of the [[Free Peoples]] mounts in that [[Block]] were {{C|Rohan}} culture, such as {{Card|Rider's Mount}}, but some of them, like {{Card|Brego}} and {{Card|Horse of Rohan}}, could be played on [[character]]s of any culture, as long as they were a [[race]] that is tall enough to ride. Almost every Free Peoples mount in this block exerts enemy [[minion]]s at the start of a [[skirmish]]. In this block, this includes mounts of other cultures, such as {{Card|Shadowfax}}. (In later sets, exerting at the start of a skirmish is an exclusive quality of {{C|Rohan}} mounts in particular.) {{C|Rohan}} cards often interact directly with mounts, either by granting bonuses to mounted characters ({{Card|Rider's Spear}}) or taking advantage of those exertions ({{Card|Eowyn, Lady of Ithilien}} and {{Card|Eomer, Third Marshal of Riddermark}}).

'''[[Warg-rider]]s''' were also introduced in [[Towers Block]], as a {{C|Isengard}} [[orc]] [[Subculture|subculture]]. Warg-riders are mostly unremarkable [[minion]]s, and each of them is relatively cheap, relatively weak, and '''[[Fierce]]''' while not [[Exhausted|exhausted]]. Most of them are fairly low-quality, but {{Card|Warg}}, {{Card|War-warg}}, or {{Card|Sharku's Warg}} are powerful [[Warg]] possessions that can only be played on warg-riders. Those three mounts give large [[strength]] and [[vitality]] increases, making the warg-riders strong and difficult to kill. Warg-riders were not an especially successful experiment; except for {{Card|Sharku, Vile Marauder}}, all warg-riders and cards which directly support warg-riders appear in [[Battle of Helm's Deep]]. In later sets, wargs can be played on any [[orc]] minion of the appropriate culture. This starts with {{Card|Gothmog's Warg}} in [[Mount Doom]], and continues with the {{C|Orc}}-culture wargs like {{Card|Relentless Warg}}.

[[Battle of Helm's Deep]] introduced another enduring design for Shadow mounts, with {{Card|Mumak}} and {{Card|War Mumak}}, cards for the {{C|Raider}} [[Southron]] subculture. Mumakil grant large [[strength]] bonuses and the '''[[Fierce]]''' [[Loaded Keywords|keyword]], turning the relatively middling-strength minions of that subculture into dangerous [[skirmish]]ers. Southrons were not as focused on Mumakil as warg-riders were, but the greater variety of Southron minions, appearing in all of the sets of [[Tower Block]] and [[King Block]], made those mounts generally more useful. This design persisted when {{C|Raider}} culture was converted to {{C|Men}} culture, with cards like {{Card|Beast of War}}. Plus, later {{C|Wraith}} mounts, generally (but did not always) followed the Mumakil model, giving strength bonuses and Fierce to [[Nazgul]].

After [[Towers Block]], most Free Peoples mounts granted a potpourri of different abilities, often but not always including a strength bonus. Most of these mounts are {{C|Rohan}} culture or different versions of Shadowfax. The main exception is [[Bloodlines]], which added a a [[cycle]] of Free Peoples mounts in each culture that interact with [[Culture Tokens]].

Not to be confused with [[Mount Doom]] or {{Card|Mount Doom}}.


==List of Cards with the Mount Item Class==

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==List of Cards that Interact with the Mount Item Class==

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