Gondorian Captain (7C96)

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Gondorian Captain (7C96) is a Gondor Companion from the Return of the King set.

EN Revision 1 (PC) EN Nonfoil First Edition EN Foil First Edition DE Nonfoil First Edition DE Foil First Edition FR Nonfoil First Edition FR Foil First Edition IT Nonfoil First Edition IT Foil First Edition

Revision 1 · Player's Council · 2021-04-30 Collection Info Title Gondorian Captain Unique No Collectible No Set 7 - Return of the King Rarity C - Common Card Number 96 Language EN - English Revision 1 (Player's Council) Release Date 2021-04-30 Notes Lists: MXL Decipher Notes: Not found. This card is part of an infinite loop with Base of Mindolluin (10U117): 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. Gameplay Info Playable Yes Culture Gondor Side Free Peoples Card Type Companion Race Man Twilight Cost 2 Strength 6 Vitality 3 Game Text Knight. Maneuver: Discard a fortification to remove a threat. Technical Info Wiki Base Card ID LOTR-EN07S096.0 Wiki Release ID LOTR-EN07S096.1 TLHH ID LOTR07096 GEMP ID 7_96 LOTRO Hex ID 60 02 AD 06 LOTRO Image ID 07_096 First edition · Decipher Collection Info Title Gondorian Captain Unique No Collectible Yes Set 7 - Return of the King Rarity C - Common Card Number 96 Language EN - English Revision 0 Notes Lists: MXL Gameplay Info Playable Yes Culture Gondor Side Free Peoples Card Type Companion Race Man Twilight Cost 2 Strength 6 Vitality 3 Game Text Knight. Fellowship: Discard a fortification to remove a threat. Technical Info Wiki Base Card ID LOTR-EN07S096.0 TLHH ID LOTR07096 GEMP ID 7_96 LOTRO Hex ID 60 02 AD 06 LOTRO Image ID 07_096

Translations DE - German Card Name Gondorischer Hauptmann Game Text Ritter. Gemeinschaft: Lege eine Befestigung ab, um eine Bedrohung zu entfernen. FR - French IT - Italian

Strategy

A cheap filler unit that is only remembered for a broken combo. While Gondorian Captain was fine when it came out, three sets later Base of Mindolluin was released which produced an infinite loop: use the Captain to discard a fortification, remove a threat, then use Base of Mindolluin to add a threat to play a fortification from the draw deck, then use Captain to get rid of it, ad nauseum. So long as the player went second and allowed their opponent to move to site 3 first, upon arrival this broken combo could be used to filter the entire Free Peoples side out of your deck, assuming you filled it with nothing but fortifications, thus allowing five full hands of Shadow cards.

Needless to say when the combo was discovered, Gondorian Captain was put on the Movie Block X-List, since he had no real use besides the infinite loop.

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