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How playable is Denethor's Sword?
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| [ 4 ] 40% |
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| [ 2 ] 20% |
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| Anonymous Prodigy |
![]() Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:26 am |
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The new Denethor and his sword = 10 strength companion for only 3 twilight. Not too shabby.  |
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| AragornDoFP |
![]() Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:20 am |
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| It could be useful, it can be played on Denethor to cancel some negative text like the adding a burden when you move. But moved to another companion to use his text in the fellowship phase like Denethor, Lord of Minas Tirith. All and all I don’t think I’d bother with it though. 3 from me. |
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| DáinIronfoot |
![]() Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:32 am |
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Cobra wrote: The potential of this card lies in the possibility of getting benefits from Denethor’s game text at certain times, and using the sword to prevent bad things from happening at other times. Notice that it can be passed around freely among your  Men.
With the new Denethor, On the Edge of Madness, you could take advantage of the Noble Leaders-like text until you’re just a couple burdens shy of corruption, then play (or transfer) Denethor’s Sword to prevent him from adding any more burdens.
Or with Denethor, Steward of the City, you could play a fellowship full of knights for next to nothing, then play (or transfer) the Sword to prevent all that burden/threat nastiness.
These would still be extremely risky plans, of course. Don’t draw Denethor’s Sword in time = auto-loss. Sword gets discarded = auto-loss. But for the extremely brave/reckless, it might be fun to try. 
That was my thinking, too. I don’t like how it cancels ALL his text, but if you play your cards right, it can break the game wide open for you.
I’m going to go against the norm and give it a very generous 4. It would be interesting to see if someone could actually pull it off, but I think they could. |
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| raptor22 |
![]() Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:09 pm |
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TheJord wrote: This doesnt stop abilities, just game text. The new Boromir could pull this and then you could play Denethor. I hope there is another card, maybe Denethor’s Cloak(?) to help this out.
Yep, it stops special abilities, but I’ll bet they didn’t intend it to.  |
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| BattleWarg |
![]() Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:26 pm |
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raptor22 wrote: TheJord wrote: This doesnt stop abilities, just game text. The new Boromir could pull this and then you could play Denethor. I hope there is another card, maybe Denethor’s Cloak(?) to help this out.
Yep, it stops special abilities, but I’ll bet they didn’t intend it to.
I disagree. You get out of the heavy penalties of Denethor, but miss out on the benefits. Makes sense to me.
By the way, has there been a clarification on ’game text’ or is Denethor bearing this no longer a companion (or a Man)? |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:41 pm |
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suckiness incarnate  another candidate for bland rare society...it has possibilities...but not much else |
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| FortunesRazor |
![]() Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:39 pm |
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| The major problem is that it is a possession which aren’t as hard to get rid of as artifacts. However, it may be too hard to get rid of as an artifact. |
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