Data:Bill Ferny, Swarthy Sneering Fellow (2R75)/Collection
 Whip of Many Thongs (2R74)
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As a card from the Mines of Moria set, Data:Bill Ferny, Swarthy Sneering Fellow (2R75) was primarily gained through [standard booster packs | as a card in the XXX starter deck | direct purchase from the XXX product | explanation of promotional distribution], or sometimes as [a random rare in a starter deck]. It is a [brief description of usage], so its demand is [enormous | relatively high | average | relatively low | nonexistent].
- As a Rare, Swarthy Sneering Fellow has a 1 in 40 (~2.5%) chance of being present in any MoM booster pack, and a 3 in 40 (~7.5%) chance of being in any MoM starter deck.
- Foil versions of Movie-era Rare cards were randomly selected to be inserted into booster packs at a rate of 1 out of 26 packs (~3.8% of packs). This means any given MoM booster pack had a 1 in 3,146 (~0.096%) chance of containing a foil Swarthy Sneering Fellow.
- Mines of Moria was printed (both standard and foil) in 5 languages other than English: German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish.
All known card variants (including those listed above) are below:
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English • Nonfoil | 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.
The errata ensures that the self-assign only works if Frodo is around, or if you’ve brought <span class="tooltip">Sam, Son of Hamfast (1C311)START_WIDGET"'-517ac5e8d0ba619aEND_WIDGET</span> or some other Hobbit splash along for the ride. Either way, the Free Peoples player now has a bit of counterplay available by not including such cards with their ARBs. Decipher Notes: 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. But now Shadows gives resistance a much larger role in the game, and the fact that Ring-bearers other than Frodo have a lower resistance is becoming a greater liability in and of itself. That new liability, combined with the existence of Bill Ferny, threatened to make one of the most well-liked aspects of Reflections too unreliable in a tournament environment for most players to consider. Also, as one more strike against Bill Ferny (though an unneeded one), Shadows introduces a couple of new cards to the Wraith culture (renamed from the Ringwraith culture) which, because they work for the whole culture and aren't Nazgûl specific, would have made Ferny a truly frightening force to be reckoned with. |
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Italian • Nonfoil | |
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Spanish • Nonfoil | |
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Polish • Foil |
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