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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 = |
| | [[Category: Comprehensive Rules References That Need Fixed]]'''From the Comprehensive Rules 4.0:''' |
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| == Alternate Ring-bearers ==
| | One Free Peoples character always begins the game as your Ring-bearer. (See building your deck.) He bears The One Ring for you, much as when Frodo carried the Ring in his pocket or on a chain around his neck. |
| 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.
| | If a character other than Frodo is your Ring-bearer, you cannot play any version of Frodo with the Ring-bearer keyword during the game. |
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| | While wearing The One Ring, your Ring-bearer can perform all normal actions such as moving and skirmishing. He may defend against attacking minions as usual. |
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| | The Ring-bearer cannot be discarded or returned to your hand, and skirmishes involving the Ring-bearer cannot be cancelled. |
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| | <div fgbrown>If Sméagol is the Ring-bearer, you cannot play Be Back Soon to discard him (“Maneuver: Discard Sméagol to discard a minion...”), or Sneaking to cancel his skirmish (“...cancel Sméagol’s skirmish if he has more vitality that the minion or minions he is skirmishing.”). |
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| | If Frodo is the Ring-bearer, you cannot use Frodo's Cloak to cancel his skirmish (“...add a burden and discard Frodo’s Cloak to cancel a skirmish involving Frodo.”) |
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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.
| | See also losing the game, overwhelmed, starting fellowship. |
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| ==Rules Entries== | | ==List of all Ring-Bearer== |
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| |source=Ring-bearer and The One Ring
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| |text=You may choose any character with the ringed resistance icon, or any version of Frodo, to be your Ring-bearer. You may choose any version of The One Ring. These two cards are not part of your draw deck (they do not count against your total of Free Peoples cards).}}
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| |source=Ring-bearer
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| |text=One Free Peoples character always begins the game as your Ring-bearer. (See building your deck.) He bears The One Ring for you, much as when Frodo carried the Ring in his pocket or on a chain around his neck.
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| If a character other than Frodo is your Ring-bearer, you cannot play any version of Frodo with the Ring-bearer keyword during the game.
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| While wearing The One Ring, your Ring-bearer can perform all normal actions such as moving and skirmishing. He may defend against attacking minions as usual.
| | * [[lotr09004|Gimli, Bearer of Grudges]] |
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| The Ring-bearer cannot be discarded or returned to your hand, and skirmishes involving the Ring-bearer cannot be cancelled.}}
| | ===Elven=== |
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| |source=Starting Fellowship
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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.
| | * [[lotr09014|Galadriel, Bearer of Wisdom]] |
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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.}}
| | ===Gandalf=== |
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| | * [[lotr13033|Gandalf, Bearer of Obligation]] |
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| | ===Gollum=== |
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| ==List of Ring-Bearers==
| | * [[lotr09030|Smeagol, Bearer of Great Secrets]] |
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| |filter= CR.CanBearRing='1' AND {{PromoFilter}}
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| ==Cards That Interact With the Ring-Bearer== | | ===Gondor=== |
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| ===Free Peoples===
| | * [[lotr09031|Boromir, Bearer of Council]] |
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| | [[lotr17028|Faramir, Bearer of Quality]] |
| |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}} | | * [[lotr09033|Isildur, Bearer of Heirlooms]] |
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| ===Shadow=== | | ===Shire=== |
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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===
| | * [[lotr09049|Bilbo, Bearer of Things Burgled]] |
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| | [[lotr04301|Frodo, Courteous Halfling]] |
| |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}} | | * [[lotr07317|Frodo, Hope of Free Peoples]] |
| |sort={{StandardSort}} | | [[lotr19028|Frodo, Little Master]] |
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| | * [[lotr05111|Frodo, Master of the Precious]] |
| | [[lotr00067|Frodo, Mr. Underhill]] |
| | * [[lotr01289|Frodo, Old Bilbo's Heir]] |
| | [[lotr11164|Frodo, Protected by Many]] |
| | * [[lotr02102|Frodo, Reluctant Adventurer]] |
| | [[lotr10121|Frodo, Resolute Hobbit]] |
| | * [[lotr01290|Frodo, Son of Drogo]] |
| | [[lotr04302|Frodo, Tired Traveller]] |
| | * [[lotr15144|Frodo, Weary From the Journey]] |
| | [[lotr07318|Frodo, Wicked Masster!]] |
| | * [[lotr13156|Sam, Bearer of Great Need]] |
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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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