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| Your Ring-bearer is a [[companion]] who you place on the table before your starting fellowship, bearing the [[One Ring]]. He or she is the key component of your deck, as all strategies rely on killing or corrupting the Ring-bearer, and you only win if your Ring bearer is alive at the regroup phase at site 9. | | = Ring-bearer = |
| | Your Ring-bearer is a [[companion]] who you place on the table before your starting fellowship, bearing the [[One Ring]] He or she is the key component of your deck, as all strategies rely on killing or corrupting the Ring-bearer, and you only win if your Ring bearer is alive at the regroup phase at site nine. |
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| == Alternate Ring-bearers ==
| | At the game's initial release with [[Fellowship of the Ring]], the only playable Ring-bearer was Frodo, and if Sam was in play when he died, [[the One Ring]] would pass to Sam and you would continue on with Sam as your Ring-bearer. This remained true until the release of [[Reflections]], when 6 new Alternate Ring-bearers became available. Alternate Ring-Bearers represented what would happen if Frodo had given or had the [[One Ring]] taken by one of the characters. They were typically lower in [[resistance]] than Frodo, but compensated by having higher strength usually. This allowed for monoculture decks, since {{C|Gondor}}, {{C|Elven}}, {{C|Dwarven}}, and {{C|Gollum}} all recieved Ring-bearers. |
| At the game's initial release with [[Fellowship of the Ring]], the only playable Ring-bearer was Frodo, and if Sam was in play when he died, [[the One Ring]] would pass to Sam and you would continue on with Sam as your Ring-bearer. This remained true until the release of [[Reflections]], when 6 new '''Alternate Ring-bearers''' (or '''ARBs''') became available. Alternate Ring-Bearers represented what would happen if Frodo had given or had the [[One Ring]] taken by someone else. These ARBs typically have lower [[resistance]] than Frodo, but compensated by having higher strength or powerful effects. | |
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| The primary impact this has was to permit true monoculture decks to exist; {{C|Gondor}}, {{C|Elven}}, {{C|Dwarven}}, and {{C|Gollum}} could all dispense with any {{C|Shire}} cards used to keep Frodo alive. Once [[Bloodlines]] was released, two new alternate Ring-bearers were made of Sam and Gandalf, allowing every [[Free Peoples]] culture except {{C|Rohan}} to have a Ring-bearer.
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| While Alternate Ring-bearers have twilight costs, the ring-bearer is "placed" on the table, not played, so the twilight cost does not need to paid. Similarly, when using {{Card|Smeagol, Bearer of Great Secrets}}, you do not need to add a burden to play him.
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| | Once [[Bloodlines]] was released, two new alternate Ring-bearers were made of Sam and Gandalf, allowing ever culture but {{C|Rohan}} to have a Ring-bearer. |
| ==Rules Entries== | | ==Rules Entries== |
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| The Ring-bearer cannot be discarded or returned to your hand, and skirmishes involving the Ring-bearer cannot be cancelled.}} | | The Ring-bearer cannot be discarded or returned to your hand, and skirmishes involving the Ring-bearer cannot be cancelled.}} |
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| |text=Your fellowship begins with a character bearing The One Ring. This can be any character with the ringed resistance icon, or any version of Frodo. That character gains the keywords Ring-bearer and Ring-bound, if he does not already have them.
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| Place your Ring-bearer face up on the table. Place The One Ring under your Ring-bearer (so the title is showing) and place on him the burdens that you bid.
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| You may then play other companions (not allies, possessions, artifacts, or conditions) one at a time from your draw deck, as long as the total twilight cost of these companions is 4 or less. The twilight cost of your Ring-bearer is not included in this total.}}
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| |filter= CR.CanBearRing='1' AND {{PromoFilter}} | | |filter= CR.CanBearRing='1' AND {{PromoFilter}} |
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| ==Cards That Interact With the Ring-Bearer==
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| ===Free Peoples===
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| |filter= C.Side = 'Free Peoples' AND CR.GameText RLIKE 'Ring-bearer' AND CR.GameText NOT RLIKE '(?<!\\w )Ring-bearer \\(' AND CR.GameText NOT RLIKE '(?<!\\w )Ring-bearer\\.' AND {{PromoFilter}}
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| ===Shadow===
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| |filter= C.Side = 'Shadow' AND CR.GameText RLIKE 'Ring-bearer' AND CR.GameText NOT RLIKE '(?<!\\w )Ring-bearer \\(' AND CR.GameText NOT RLIKE '(?<!\\w )Ring-bearer\\.' AND {{PromoFilter}}
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| ===Sites===
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| |filter= C.CardType = 'Site' AND CR.GameText RLIKE 'Ring-bearer' AND CR.GameText NOT RLIKE '(?<!\\w )Ring-bearer \\(' AND CR.GameText NOT RLIKE '(?<!\\w )Ring-bearer\\.' AND {{PromoFilter}}
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| ===The One Ring===
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| |filter= C.CardType = 'The One Ring' AND CR.GameText RLIKE 'Ring-bearer' AND CR.GameText NOT RLIKE '(?<!\\w )Ring-bearer \\(' AND CR.GameText NOT RLIKE '(?<!\\w )Ring-bearer\\.' AND {{PromoFilter}} AND {{RingFilter}}
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| |sort={{StandardSort}} | | |sort={{StandardSort}} |
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