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| The [[Player's Council]] is a group of volunteers who aim to nurture and guide the future of the Lord of the Rings TCG. One of the aspects of this responsibility is in issuing card-altering errata to address issues with the game--it's not perfect, after all, and we can always chase the elusive perfect ideal.
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| ==History==
| | While the game was still active, [[Decipher]] had a policy of issuing as few [[Errata]] as possible, preferring to send problematic cards to the [[X-List]] rather than require people to ignore the ink printed on their physical cards. However, in modern times the landscape of the game has changed. The digital platform [[GEMP]] dominates the game scene with between 6,000 and 10,000 games per month played, and issuing and managing errata on this centralized platform is easier than it ever was during the game's official print run. |
| During the lifetime of the game, Decipher would occasionally issue errata, clarifications, or rulings based on the discovery of a negative interaction in the game (such as infinite loops, overly powerful combos, or what have you). In general, Decipher was only willing to directly change the text of a card (errata) if the problem card was in the most recent set or block--if there was a combo involving an older and a newer card, the solution was typically to add the old card to the X-list, banning it from play.
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| Occasionally Decipher issued what were essentially errata under different names--"clarifications" if the new text was always the intent of the card and it was just poorly written, and "rulings" if the card touched on a more broad concept that could theoretically affect multiple cards (tho often once the ruling was made, they would avoid making future cards that interact with it just for simplicity's sake).
| | The [[Player's Council]] has opted to take an approach more akin to that used in competitive multiplayer video games, with changes issued on an as-needed basis. The PC aims to have no X-Lists and applies the same errata to all PC formats. These are all formats with "PC" in the name, including [[PC-Fellowship]], [[PC-Movie]], and [[PC-Expanded]]. |
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| In all cases however, Decipher attempted to make as few errata, clarifications, and rulings as possible. They knew early on that it's never a good feeling to painstakingly construct a deck from your collection, only to show up to a local event and discover that several of the cards that you built as linchpins have been altered and no longer behave the way they were printed in ink. | | In GEMP, all errata (PC or Decipher) are indicated by a red line across the upper left-hand corner. In addition, all PC errata have a red box in the lower left-hand corner listing the date that the card was last updated. |
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| ===PC Era===
| | To search and browse all PC-issued errata, see the following pages: |
| However, in modern times the landscape of the game has changed. [[Gemp]], the digital platform, dominates in number of games played, with about 6,000 per month in 2021 up to a lifetime peak of more than 10,000. That's an average of 200 games ''per day'' in 2021, and more than 330 at peak.
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| Thus, the PC has opted to take an approach more akin to that used in competitive multiplayer video games, instead. Decipher's approach was understandable for the era in which they worked, but today with the growth of the Internet, the moving of the community into online communities, and the acclimation of players in general to the concept of regular balance patches, the idea of altering large numbers of cards on a regular basis is far more available to us than it was to Decipher. Altering ink is a painful process, but altering pixels is trivial.
| | * '''[[PC Errata/Notes]]''' - This page records the reasons each card was errata'd |
| | * '''[[PC Errata/Gallery]]''' - An image dump for browsing |
| | * '''[[PC_Errata/List]]''' - A simple per-set list of cards |
| | * '''[[PC_Errata/Table]]''' - A detailed sortable table containing the game text in text format |
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| === Identifying ===
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| In Gemp, all errata are indicated by a red line across the upper left-hand corner. In addition, all PC errata have a red box in the lower left-hand corner listing the date that the card was last errata'd.
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| == PC Errata ==
| | = PC Errata History = |
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| Below is a list of every errata the PC has issued. These errata apply to all formats with "PC" in the name, including Fellowship - PC, Movie - PC, and Expanded - PC.
| | PC errata tend to be released in batches, each batch aiming to address a particular cluster of issues or targeting a particular event. |
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| === X-list Errata ===
| | '''NOTE''': The errata listed below are historical in nature. If you are looking for the ''current'' errata, then use one of the pages above. |
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| The first batch of errata issued by the PC addressed cards which Decipher had already removed from one or more formats. The reasons are myriad, but the intention of these errata is to bring all such cards to a single more balanced state that can be used in any format the card's set is legal in.
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| | The first batch of errata issued by the PC in March and April 2021 addressed cards which Decipher had already removed from one or more formats. Decipher added cards to the [[X-List]] for all sorts of reason, but regardless of origin the PC attempted to bring all cards to the same standard of playability. |
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| | {{Card|Elrond, Lord of Rivendell}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN01S040.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/51_040.jpg
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| | The cultural enforcement on this card is not strong enough for the ability provided. Such an ability should require more of a commitment to the {{C|Elven}} culture. Also, when combined with other cards such as {{Card|Shoulder to Shoulder}}, the healing function of this card provides too much utility, both for Elrond, and other site 3 allies.
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| | {{Card|Sam, Son of Hamfast}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN01S311.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/51_311.jpg
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| | This card has been on our X-List radar for quite some time. The deck lists turned in by the top 16 players of each major event this year were a perfect example of why – in every case, at least 15 of them were stocking one or more copies of Sam. He is simply too versatile, offering huge benefits regardless of Free Peoples strategy, and regardless of who your Ring-bearer is. And he’s even better if your Ring-bearer happens to be Frodo.
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| With Shadows, the need to address Sam became even more pressing. With resistance becoming an important feature of all companions (not just Ring-bearer) and it being directly tied to burdens, Sam easily undermined a large number of Shadow cards in the set, and made many Free Peoples cards too reliable (and thus, too strong).
| | The first installment of these errata targeted the 5 most impactful banned cards [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/return-of-the-kings-edict/ as detailed in these blog posts here], and later [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/fellowship-errata-spoiler/ the rest of the Fellowship Block X-List cards followed] along with the remaining Movie- and Expanded-era cards. |
| | Sam is tricky, because not only is he approximately the best burden removal option, for many cultures he represents almost the ''only'' burden removal option, as many cultures plain do not have access to native anti-corruption options. Sam probably deserves to be nerfed more than he is, but it's not possible to do so reasonably until other burden options have been added to more cultures in the future. [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/errata-spoiler-sam-son-of-hamfast/ Full article here.]
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| | {{Card|Flaming Brand}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN02S032.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/52_032.jpg
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| | This card has no cultural enforcement, may be played in addition to another weapon, and has no cost. The resulting combination provides too much utility.
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| | [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/errata-spoiler-flaming-brand/ Full article here.]
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| | {{Card|Horn of Boromir}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN03S042.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/53_042.jpg
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| | There is no cultural enforcement on the special ability of this card. This permanent effectively circumvents the rule of 9 by allowing non-companions to skirmish.
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| | The permanent Rule of 9 circumvention is the worst aspect of this card. We have started with requiring a discard, so that multiple such usages require multiple backups, but this may prove to be insufficient. If the PC needs to return to this card in the future, it will probably be with a complete rework to the concept. [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/03/02/errata-spoiler-horn-of-boromir/ Full article here.]
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| | {{Card|Saruman, Keeper of Isengard}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN03S068.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/53_068.jpg
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| | This card effectively doubles the number of skirmishes a fellowship faces by making all Uruk-hai fierce and then nullifying play that would serve as protection against those Uruk-hai.
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| | Damage +1 and Fierce are no joke, and TTT's focus on uruks makes Saruman a no-go. By merging both of his abilities to use the same resource pool, the player is now forced to make an interesting decision--keep uruks alive, or keep them fierce? [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/02/27/errata-spoiler-saruman-keeper-of-isengard/ Full article here.]
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| | {{Card|Galadriel, Lady of Light}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN01S045.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/51_045.jpg
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| | This card has no cultural enforcement. The special ability allows a player to play high utility site 6 allies, who also lack cultural enforcement, for free. This level of permanent resource denial undermines the Shadow number curve on sites. Also, when combined with other cards such as {{Card|Shoulder to Shoulder}}, the healing function of this card provides too much utility, both for Galadriel, and other site 6 allies.
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| | Galadriel gets the same treatment as Elrond does to her healing ability, and the the twilight discount is reduced to 1. [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/fellowship-errata-spoiler/ Full article here, 'Choke' section.]
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| | {{Card|No Stranger to the Shadows}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN01S108.0_card.jpg]]
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| | This level of permanent resource denial undermines the Shadow number curve on sites.
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| | The card is now unique to limit stacking, and '''Stealth''' has been added to potentially allow this card to be targeted in the future. [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/fellowship-errata-spoiler/ Full article here, 'Choke' section.]
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| | {{Card|Sting}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN01S313.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/51_313.jpg
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| | There is no cultural enforcement on this card because every deck is required to play with Frodo. This is true of any card that requires only the Ring-bearer with no additional enforcement. The cost of the special ability, exerting a Hobbit, is undercosted for the utility it provides.
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| | Sting was made strictly worse than Glamdring, while also adding a random element to it to make it unreliable. The twilight reduction has also been reduced. [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/fellowship-errata-spoiler/ Full article here, 'Choke' section.]
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| | {{Card|A Talent for Not Being Seen}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN01S316.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/51_316.jpg
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| |Any single type of function of the game can be looked at as falling somewhere on a scale. For example, take healing: on one end of the scale, you have a card which removes 1 wound, while on the other you might have a card which removes 20. Cost is just as important as scope in determining where on the scale a card falls, of course. A card that heals a wound for a twilight cost of 2 is lower on the scale than a card that heals a wound for a twilight cost of 1.
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| With A Talent For Not Being Seen, the scale in question is denying twilight tokens to the Shadow player. Talent has a very low cost, and over the course of the game it can deny a lot of twilight tokens. Thus its scope leaves us very little room to make cards any better than it without “exploding” this aspect of the game. At the same time, its cost is so low that it leaves us very little room to make cards of lower scope than it – there’s not much lower the cost for such cards can get. It’s sort of a big, rotting tree in the middle of the “twilight denial” acreage. With very limited possibilities for building around it, it had to be torn down to make space for the house we intend to build on the land.
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| For those who feel I’ve stretched my analogy a bit thin (or who draw an unpleasant comparison with Saruman uprooting the forest near Isengard), let me say it another, perhaps simpler way: Talent has been a card near the edge of “trouble” for some time, and with recent efforts to increase the strength of other aspects of the Hobbit culture, it was judged too powerful to remain in the environment.
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| | Talent's errata aims to preserve the only reason to keep FOTR Pippin alive while working within the very limited constraints that Decipher points out--increasing the exertions or reducing the twilight choke are both low-resolution changes that too easily dumpster the card. Instead, more copies of the card must be included to get the same effect as before. [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/fellowship-errata-spoiler/ Full article here, 'Choke' section.]
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| | {{Card|Gimli, Dwarf of the Mountain-race}}
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| |Dwarves as a culture have never excelled at keeping site Shadow numbers low and “choking” off the twilight pool. Gimli was a fun anomaly for the Fellowship block, where the number and placement of underground sites was known and limited. Those same boundaries held true on the Tower and King site paths. But with Shadows, all that is changing.
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| Shadows has a big focus on what design and development call “terrain” – that is, whether a site is a battleground, forest, mountain, river, or any of the other similar types of keywords. Terrain is so important with the new adventure path that in playtesting, players were frequently bidding to go second, and “pathfinding” (selection of the next site by the Free Peoples player) was valued as it has never been before. If a player wants to run an adventure path of nothing but one type of terrain, that may well be possible – if not with Shadows, then likely once Black Rider and Bloodlines are added to the mix.
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| In short, having a single, easy-to-start card (one with out-of-culture gameplay, at that) which could potentially deny 2 twilight tokens at every single site simply proved too strong.
| | == 2021 Yuletide Errata == |
| | Gimli is an odd duck. Rather uniquely among the rest of the cards on this list, he isn’t a problem in FOTR in the slightest. We can of course argue whether the same is true for these other cards, but you can’t deny that most of them have at least been ''complained'' about quite loudly and often; the same is not true for Gimli.
| | The second major batch of errata issued by the PC was done as part of the 2021 12 Days of Yuletide event, which also coincided with the first public playtest release of set V1, [[Shadow of the Past]]. These errata intended to push the boundary of what had previously been done with errata, breaking away from Decipher's restrictions further and issuing buffing errata alongside the nerf errata. Several infamous cards were targeted, as well as a number of less-well-known ones. |
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| | {{Card|Aragorn, Heir to the White City}}
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| | There is no cultural enforcement on the game text of this card. This level of permanent resource denial undermines the Shadow number curve on sites.
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| | Here he is, the big man himself. There have been dozens of proposals for the best way to hit ol’ Hair of the White Creepy right in the kneecaps, and the PC went back and forth for a long time. In the end, we’ve got a simple numeric nerf. 1 twilight is not a lot, and considering that it only works on twilight from cards that you played that Fellowship phase, you will probably be better served by using other Aragorns.
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| | {{Card|Bill the Pony}}
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| |'''Bill the Pony''' – Choke appears to be a major focus of the X-list. Why? What is it about cards like Bill that make them prime candidates for the list?
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| Trevor: Resource denial has proven to be a huge issue with Lord of the Rings TCG.
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| Geoff: I think the most important thing to note here is that when people play card games, we actually want them to be able to play their cards. It’s one thing if passive denial (playing little to no cards) leads to a small pool of resources for your opponent. It’s another thing entirely if active denial (playing cards that reduce the opponent’s resources) is forcing an opponent’s entire deck to shut down. Unfortunately, in the system we have, your Free Peoples ‘choke’ strategy does more than just hinder your opponent’s Shadow strategy. It hinders their deck’s cycling…in turn hindering their Free Peoples strategy’s ability to handle your own Shadow strategy. It has a very negative cyclic effect that many players can’t fathom a way out of once they’re stuck in it.
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| | Decipher here simply mentions the problems with choke in general, as opposed to specific problems that make Bill worthy of getting singled out. They do later mention that at least Talent For Not Being Seen requires more than just Frodo, and so we’ve taken that logic at face value.
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| Bill’s errata here is designed to kill two birds with one stone: first, by requiring it go on Sam, the lore nerds in all of us are finally satisfied.
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| ….what, did you need a second reason? Well in that case, notice that this can no longer be used in a solo Frodo context, nor can Bill be bounced around between whichever hobbits happen to be the least expendable at the time. Sam in general should end up as less of a pump-n-dump, which should continue to make Son of Hamfast a tiny bit worse. Just a little.
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| | {{Card|Ottar, Man of Laketown}}
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| | This card makes large-scale card draw too accessible to all Free Peoples strategies. It requires a very low cultural commitment to a culture that is not supposed to be the strongest at Fellowship phase card draw.
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| | The complaint is straightforward: it permits lots of card draw (and card cycling, even if that goes unmentioned) when Gandalf is not supposed to. He’s even worse with Elrond, Lord of Rivendell, whose Home 3 healing ensures that Ottar + Elrond permit a 4 card draw / 3 card cycle every Fellowship phase, which makes most other methods pale in comparison.
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| | == 2022 Summer Errata == |
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| | A handful of repair errata were released in July and August 2022, almost all of which were alterations to previous errata. These were mostly buffs to compensate for the over-nerfed state those cards had been left in, sometimes through oversight and in other cases simply being too harsh. |
| | {{Card|Relics of Moria}}
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| |'''Relics of Moria''' – I’m sure there are a lot of people who would be glad to see less of Moria in the coming year, but most would not have considered this the lynchpin of the deck. What prompted this card being added to the X-list?
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| Trevor: We knew going into this that Relics of Moria would be the most controversial decision to be included on the list. Moria is an incredibly popular strategy for players the world over. Removing something that players are accustomed to including in every Moria deck is bound to stir some controversy. But the bottom line is Relics is far too efficient, it just does too much. Moria can still do what it did before; the goal wasn’t to kill Moria. But now they have to work at it, a permanent way to start the cycle was just too much.
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| Geoff: The core of Moria is its ability to extend the Shadow player’s hand. That theme was never really expanded upon after FotR was released for obvious reasons: too much of a good thing can be bad. Without the {{Card|Goblin Scimitar}}, there really is no reasonable way for Moria’s hand extension to happen, except through the use of 1 event ({{Card|Threat of the Unknown}}). Just so we’re clear, when I say ‘hand extension’ in relation to Moria, I’m referring to the Shadow player being able to have drawn cards from their deck in the Shadow phase.
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| | == 2022 Yuletide Errata == |
| | Relics is one card that doesn’t seem to match Decipher’s analysis so much. Even in FOTR where it is permitted, it seldom seems to kick-start the Moria twilight engine, which instead is usually triggered by {{Card|Goblin Scavengers}}–either played from hand, from {{Card|Goblin Swarms}}, {{Card|Hosts of Thousands}}, or {{Card|They Are Coming}}. Far more often Relics is used in a secondary respect to pull weapons that Scavengers can’t get–{{Card|Cave Troll’s Hammer}}, for instance.
| | Another batch of holiday errata for the 2022 Yuletide Leagues, this batch consisted of 60+ cards in two categories: major balance errata, and a rework to the [[Fellowship Block]]-era [[Discard Deck]] archetype, which aimed to eliminate the [[NPE]] of playing against it entirely. |
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| In this case the PC has decided to experiment with releasing it with the game text unchanged. Instead, the card is given a very slight nerf by making it unique. This isn’t likely to have much of an impact, but then if we’re right, neither will re-releasing the card.
| | To quote the [https://blog.lotrtcgpc.net/2023/01/12/2023-01-errata-remarks/ errata remarks blog post]: |
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| | {{Card|Saruman's Snows}}
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| |This card had perhaps a slower rise to power than some, but before long players knew this was one of the most effective conditions in the game. Its impact was so deep, more than one top-level tournament deck has been seen stocking multiple copies of {{Card|Boromir's Cloak}} exclusively to deal with it. For a “swarm” style of Shadow strategy, quite potent enough on its own, Saruman’s Snows ensures the Ring-bearer will be overwhelmed.
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| Saruman’s Snows does not necessarily interact directly with any of the new rules in Shadows. We have witnessed over the years, however, that it is a figurative mallet where a scalpel is called for. Denying an opponent a resource or opportunity he was counting on is of course what the game is all about. A missed chance to heal here, a lost special ability there; in the right quantities, these are the things meant to decide games. But Saruman’s Snows is a card able to cut off an entire phase of the game – neither skirmish special abilities nor events can slip by it. Consequently, it’s a constant impediment to new card design. In a way, it doesn’t matter how interesting or impactful a new card we release is – if it happens in the skirmish phase, there’s a frequently used card out there that can shut it off. You may well see aspects of this card reappearing in the future, but not all together in a gift-wrapped single package like this.
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| |Snows is a card that sits at the center of a small cluster of instant-kill strategies: put down {{Card|Isengard Warrior}} and another Isenorc, play Snows, and then 4-5 other minions: boom, instant overwhelmed Frodo. No archery abilities can be used to thin the herd of minions, and all the ways you might keep Frodo alive ({{Card|Power According To His Stature}}, {{Card|Hobbit Stealth}}, {{Card|Boromir, Son of Denethor}}, {{Card|Friend to Sam}}) can’t be used. The only defenses available are cards that trigger during the Maneuver phase, because all other phases have been systematically denied you.
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| | |source=[https://blog.lotrtcgpc.net/2023/01/12/2023-01-errata-remarks/ 2023-01 Errata Remarks] |
| | |text=A Negative Play Experience, or NPE, is different from a card being merely overpowered or too strong. An NPE is when a card or mechanic is degenerate in the sense that it contradicts the basic reason for sitting down and playing the game. |
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| | In most card games, you are (bear with me) attempting to sit down and play your cards. It’s okay if your opponent plays better cards, or plays cards more cleverly than you, but if you are made inherently unable to play your cards at all, then you have to wonder what the point was in sitting down in the first place. |
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| Thus, our errata addresses that specific use case without touching any others. Stupid Swarm relies on having a variety of cheap minions (mostly Moria), with a limited number of Isengard Orcs in the mix. By making Snows only apply to those Isenorcs, it should be possible for the Free Peoples player to assign those few that remain away from the Ring-bearer, leaving Frodo available to use any of the tools in his toolbox to avoid a gristly death.
| | Discard decks are not overpowered or difficult to beat. You simply throw out any pretense you had of coming to the table with a fine-tuned deck, you run like a madman down the site path, and you win. Or else you cling to the plan you started with, and watch your hand get disintegrated site after site, alongside your deck getting eaten away little by little, until the number of cards you didn’t play outstrips the cards you did play by a large margin. |
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| | The secondary function of this card is too strong for its cost, and makes the card superior in almost all situations to any other strength event.
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| | Savagery has long been a power card that requires the Free Peoples player to play around in FOTR block. Most anti-Fellowship-size cards are at the 6 companion limit, but Savagery triggers at 5, meaning that fellowships have to either go with a meager 4 companions or risk losing a couple companions anyway to one instance of this card.
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| | {{Card|Ulaire Nertea, Messenger of Dol Guldur}}
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| | The special ability of this card has no cultural enforcement. This makes him too accessible to non-Ringwraith swarm decks. His ability also empowers the swarm by triggering the “best option” swarm minions repeatedly.
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| | There’s not a great option available to nerf Nertea without entirely eliminating his ability to integrate with multicultural Swarms of any flavor (although if you think you’ve cracked the code, let us know). With that, we simply bid farewell. Nertea may well see use in Ringwraith Orc applications, but his days of enabling any deck anywhere are clearly over.
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| | This card was written before the swarm dimension was added to the Sauron culture. As such, it is too powerful in those decks.
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| | Forces of Mordor wasn’t really ever much of a problem in FOTR, but later incarnations of Sauron could use this to squeeze out an extra minion or two to powerful effect.
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| | With this errata batch, we are taking a systematic approach to excising this NPE from FOTR block. We are not satisfied with deleting those cards from the game via banning, and in fact we are also not satisfied with merely blanking those cards out and replacing the text with something else entirely. |
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| | {{Card|Bill Ferny, Swarthy Sneering Fellow}}
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| |There was talk of adding Bill Ferny to the X-List while we worked on Reflections. Clearly, he works well against the alternate Ring-bearers and deters some players from using them. But at that time, we felt that the scales were not tipped far enough against the new Ring-bearers to warrant removing Ferny.
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| | Instead, we looked to {{Card|Desperate Defense of the Ring}}, which out of all of the discard cards does not feel quite so toxic, somehow. We realized that this must be because of the choice, that even though it is making you choose between two horrible results, you still have the agency to decide which is the least painful path in the moment. |
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| | Ironically, after applying this formula to each card, For balance purposes, many cards which affect the draw deck typically had their numbers ''increased'' to compensate for the fact that it was no longer a guaranteed hit. In some cases, the increase was dramatic, but that’s what it took to make it work as an alternate choice. |
| | Simply put, Bill Ferny is a nightmare for Alternate Ring-bearers that take wounds or burdens when assigned to a skirmish, since Bill can saunter on up and trigger those deleterious effects whenever he feels like it.
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| | In addition, Free Peoples cards which discard from the draw deck have been altered to discard from the bottom of the deck instead of the top. The topdeck discard is now reserved for more offensive and targeted cards, which in practice meant every Shadow card. |
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| | Again, terrain is hugely important beginning with Shadows. And as with Gimli, this card was both too strong and out of culture. Pathfinding has never been a part of the Elven culture aside from this card, and suddenly Galadriel was enabling Elves to put out an uninterrupted string of forests onto the adventure path. She could even do this for free, since the cost of her exertion could be negated by using her to heal herself.
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| | One wonders at this point if perhaps it’s the title of “Galadriel” that needs nerfed rather than any other aspect of the card. Regardless, the Big G was a problem for the Shadows path more than anything. To reduce her ability to trigger literally every turn, her ability has been turned away from herself so that she cannot self-heal, and requiring her to exert twice. Now if you want to abuse her site manipulation, you’ll have to pack other means of healing.
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| |'''The Palantir of Orthanc''' – Many people have been calling for this to be added to the X-list for months. In fact, it was highly rumored that it would be added last fall in anticipation of Return of the King and the Initiative mechanic. Why add it now and not then?
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| Geoff: Supposedly, events will become more playable…so that means event-driven strategies like PATHS Hobbits, all-Dwarven fighting, and All-elven fighting will get a bit of a boost.
| | == 2023 World Championship Errata == |
| | With the return of the World Championship under the PC's management, it was known in advance that certain problematic elements of PC-Movie were going to need alteration, and some of those changes were finally made (controversially) [https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2023/06/06/june-2023-errata-final-batch-before-the-wc/ in June 2023]. |
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| Tom: It should free up their ability to include a few more events in their decks. That should open up deck building a little bit, but it is really up to the players to explore exactly what that means.
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| Trevor: I agree that it should really open deck construction for the Free Peoples player. Not having to worry about the Palantir will be a nice change when building a deck.
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| | Two main issues with this Palantir: first, it interacts negatively with initiative, and second it slows the game down tremendously while your trolling opponent puts all of your cards back on top of the deck one at a time.
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| | If there has been an errata batch released since the above section, please go bother [https://lotrtcgpc.net/discord ketura on the PC Discord] to update this article, lol. |
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| |'''Frying Pan''' – A great deal of people use this card as the be-all and end-all of anti-Moria cards – why add it to the X-list when Moria is still so prevalent at tournaments?
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| | Also, if you have an idea for a card to alter (whether through a buff or a nerf), [https://lotrtcgpc.net/discord the PC would love to hear from you]. |
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| Trevor: This card just fits all of the criteria when considering a card for the X-List. The Pan is under-cost, not enforced, and you must take it into account when building a shadow strategy based around orcs. It is also an automatic choice for just about every deck.
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| Geoff: The ‘pan’ was created as an over-compensating answer to the Moria ‘swarm’ strategy (as if there’s some other kind of Moria strategy…well…I say that almost in jest), and when I say over-compensating, I mean it should’ve only affected Moria and no other type of Orc. In the long-term, it’s having a negative impact on every other non-Moria Orc strategy (probably with the exception of Isengard) that relies on 1 and 2 vitality minions. A new balance will evolve between ‘non-pan’ fellowships and ‘non-relics’ Moria decks in the future.
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| | There’s the usual reasoning of lack of cultural enforcement and undercosting, but reading between the lines a bit, it almost seems like Pan was banned as compensation for Relics also getting banned. We’re letting Relics off lightly, and so we may as well do the same for Pan, with a 1-twilight cost to give it a little impact when it gets tossed between Hobbits. Orcs are bigger and badder than they were when the Pan was removed, and 1-vitality Moria swarms are less prevalent, so as far as we can tell this shouldn’t be as big of an issue. We’ll keep an eye on this one just in case.
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| | There is no cultural enforcement on this card as all players have one or more Hobbits. For a special ability on a permanent, the cost is too low compared to the power provided. Also, this is a permanent that cancels the Ring-bearer’s skirmish at site 9.
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| | Short and sweet. Filibert keeps Frodo from dying at site 9, so we will prevent him from being able to use it. This should relegate Fatty to Hobbit-only decks as a result.
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| | There is no cultural enforcement on this card as all players have a Ring-bearer. Also, this is a permanent that cancels the Ring-bearer’s skirmish at site 9.
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| | Another site-9 game winner. Rather than auto-winning the skirmish, we’ve opted to make it so the Ring-bearer can ''survive'' the skirmish instead. +4 strength will permit a naked Frodo to survive against any Nazgul except the Witch-king (fittingly), and depending on which version of the One Ring is used, he might even survive that.
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| | (As far as we can tell, Decipher never recorded their reasoning behind why they burned down The Shire Countryside)
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| | One can look at deck lists before and after The Two Towers expansion and see a sudden, sharp drop in the number of conditions used by the average Shadow build, a trend which to this day many Shadow strategies don't dare to challenge. Playing against a Dauntless Hunter deck can be particularly negative to a new player, who is usually unaware that such a powerful deck type exists to stall playing Shadow events and conditions.
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| | Based on what we can scrounge up from old forum posts, Uruk Regular seems to mostly be an issue when paired with {{Card|Deep of Helm}}, which let you play Regular for free, and then you could chain a series of Regulars out one at a time using each one's game text, and ''then'' finally start using the actual twilight pool to pay for whatever else you might have.
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| | Since the release of The Two Towers, we have been refining the cultural identity of Rohan. Among other evolutions, we want them to be absolute top dog at dealing with Shadow possessions, but hard-pressed to deal with Shadow conditions. {{Card|Let Us Be Swift}} and (in a very limited way) {{Card|Arrow-slits}} are also capable of discarding conditions, but neither is as reliable or effective as Fortress Never Fallen. The card is so effective, it was impeding future design – it was hard for us to push Rohan to be strong at the things they're supposed to be strong at while they were also so strong at this particular thing they're supposed to be weak at. Any good push ran the risk of simply making them good at everything. With this "obstacle" removed, the road will now be clear for us to roll through with great new cards for fans of the Rohan culture.
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| | As with Galadriel, here was a pathfinding card that proved very powerful with the new adventure path. And like Galadriel, it's in a culture that should not have pathfinding at all. After all, who knows how long Frodo and Sam might have staggered lost through Emyn Muil without Sméagol to guide them out?"
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| | This card is part of an infinite loop with {{Card|Keeper of the Watchwood}}. Basically, invoke Treebeard's ability to discard a shadow condition and pull SC from discard, then invoke SC's ability to discard a minion and heal Treebeard back to full, wash, rinse, repeat. By making the ability of SC only work at the beginning of the regroup phase, the original intent of the card is preserved while eliminating infinite recursive abuse.
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| | This card is part of an infinite loop with {{Card|Base of Mindolluin}}: Invoke Base to add a threat and play a fortification, invoke Captain to discard a fortification and remove a threat, and do this repeatedly until every fortification is in your discard pile and you have effectively filtered your deck down to only Shadow cards. By moving Captain's ability to the Maneuver phase, you still get the original intent of burning fortifications to remove threats, but can no longer be cheeky about it.
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| | With the Reflections {{C|Dwarven}} Rings of Power easily permitting Dwarves to get to high levels of '''damage''' bonus, each usage of Aggression easily hit the Rule of 4 cap. And since Dwarves have plenty of means of recycling conditions (such as {{Card|Defending the Keep}}), the card draw was simply too much. We have reduced the draw to 1, since the actual damage bonus from the card itself is also quite impactful.
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| | Each of the "do an effect when you lose initiative" cycle of cards are prone to abuses, but considering how many conditions discard themselves as a cost, this card trivializes retrieving them. Thus, the card has been altered to instead only play conditions from hand, and as compensation the effect has been expanded to also possessions.
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| | Galadriel, Lady Redeemed has proven over time to be too cost-effective at counteracting too broad a range of possible strategies. Much like {{Card|Legolas, Dauntless Hunter}} before it was added to the X-List, this Galadriel's impact on the tournament environment could be seen in the shrinking number of decks making any serious use of Shadow conditions (and possessions). Removing Galadriel from the Standard format makes way for many dozens of possible condition-oriented strategies to become competitive.
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| | Oh, GLR. Has there ever been a more controversial card?
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| | Infinite twilight glitch! It's surprising that this card wasn't simply errata'd as similar cards were in the past. If you're missing the trick, you play Fiend on the table, spot no other minions, add {{Twilight|3}} (or {{Twilight|5}}), play an event or condition, add {{Twilight|3}} (or {{Twilight|5}}) again, and repeat until all of your non-minion cards are paid for for free, and then finally add the twilight once more to get another minion out.
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| ! style="min-width:200px" | PC Notes
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| | {{Card|Final Account}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN11S031.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/61_031.jpg
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| | Final Account was also showing itself to be too broad in scope and too low in cost. While discard retrieval is well within Gandalf's cultural identity, it is the means by which cards can be played in a game many times more than the "4 card limit" ordinarily allows. That type of power must carry with it an appropriate cost, and Final Account's cost (1 twilight token, 2 discards from hand, and an exertion on a high-vitality character) simply wasn't appropriate for such unrestricted retrieval (any Free Peoples card and any Shadow card).
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| | Rather than crank up the costs involved, we've opted to remove the "any free peoples" portion and reduce the card to only retrieving Shadow cards, which is an interesting twist on the normal way of things.
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| | {{Card|Strange-looking Men}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN11S100.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/61_100.jpg
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| | (Decipher notes not found)
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| | Strange-looking Men is part of a series of infinite loops that involve passing {{Card|Pavise}} around. The basic idea is to have something like {{Card|Ceremonial Armor}} or {{Card|Wildman's Oath}} in your support area to catch discarded minions, and then one or more copies of {{Card|Sunland Guard}} with Pavise in play. Use Guard's ability to play {{Card|Sunland Trooper}} or {{Card|Easterling Dispatcher}}, then use SLM to bounce the Pavise around, killing the Guards (which get put back on the support area possessions), wash, rinse, repeat to generate infinite twilight.
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| Simplest change is to alter SLM's ability to only work once.
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| | {{Card|Demoralized}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN11S114.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/61_114.jpg
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| | (Decipher notes not found)
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| | As a non-unique card, up to 4 copies of Demoralized adding {{Twilight|1}} per companion exertion is pretty juicy on its own, but when you combine it with cards such as {{Card|Rallying Orc}} which force exertions, you can basically guarantee that your whole hand will be paid for (assuming it's mostly lurkers).
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| To avoid such abuse, Demoralized was altered to simply be unique.
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| | {{Card|Orkish Smith}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN11S132.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/61_132.jpg
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| | (Decipher notes not found)
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| | Orkish Smith must have been combined with some later card ({{Card|Ordnance Grunt}}? {{Card|Retribution}}?) but if there was a specific combo involved, its history is lost to us. To head off any particular issues, the card now only shuffles conditions back into discard, tho for compensation the card lets you retrieve 2 such cards.
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| | {{Card|Courtyard Parapet}}
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| | colspan=2 |[[File:LOTR-EN13S188.0_card.jpg|center]]
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| <div style="margin-left:115px; display:block">https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/63_188.jpg</div>
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| | (Decipher notes not found)
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| | 8 site moves + site manipulation = 8 guaranteed burdens, on top of whatever else your own deck throws at the Free Peoples. This card's effect has been modified to only work in region 2, capping the burden total at 3.
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| | {{Card|Madril, Defender of Osgiliath}}
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| | [[File:LOTR-EN15S064.0_card.jpg]]
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| | https://i.lotrtcgpc.net/errata/xlist/65_064.jpg
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| | (Decipher notes not found)
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| | Madril basically guarantees that everyone is roaming so long as there's enough threats on the table, and if everyone's roaming then Ithilien rangers have enough tools to discard those minions or otherwise deal with them, ensuring the threats never actually threaten. Thus Madril's ability is capped to an effect of +1.
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| === 2021 Yuletide Errata ===
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| The second major batch of errata issued by the PC was done as part of the 2021 12 Days of Yuletide event, which also coincided with the first public playtest release of set V1, [[Shadow of the Past]]. These errata intended to push the boundary of what had previously been done with errata, breaking away from Decipher's restrictions further and issuing buffing errata alongside the nerf errata. Several infamous cards were targeted, as well as a number of less-well-known ones.
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| [Pending import into the wiki.]
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| Please see the 12 Days blog post that goes into the errata here: https://lotrtcg.wordpress.com/2021/12/13/12-days-of-yuletide-day-11/
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, intended to reduce its ability to dumpster an entire culture.
being limited to 2; this addressed its reason for its ban from Expanded, but did nothing to address its otherwise infamous reputation.
, which out of all of the discard cards does not feel quite so toxic, somehow. We realized that this must be because of the choice, that even though it is making you choose between two horrible results, you still have the agency to decide which is the least painful path in the moment.
