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How playable is Ulaire Enquea, Duplicitous Lieutenant?
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| Cobra |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:08 pm |
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The new Enquea offers his own take on condition removal, exerting twice to discard 1-2 conditions. Play a Ring of Rancor on him, and you can exhaust him to discard 2-4 conditions! Ulaire Enquea, Duplicitous Lieutenant looks like a solid card that will definitely see some play.
The burden-adding text is interesting. I can only think of a few cards (most significantly Nenya, Ring of Adamant) that heal companions after the fellowship phase, and if the Free People’s player is afraid of burdens, he’ll simply wait to use those cards at another site where Enquea isn’t snooping around. So generally his burden-adding ability won’t be very useful.
It does beg for combos to be found, though.  Here’s one: Ulaire Enquea, Duplicitous Lieutenant + Neekerbreekers’ Bog. A double-move could be real bad news for the fellowship, as each companion will either exert, or heal and add a burden. |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:14 pm |
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| Nice card. Will see play for its second ability, and if you really want to stop some healing, pull him out on a exhausted fellowship. Here’s a combo, Gates of the Dead City x 4. Heal that companion, you get a burden and 4 exertions. Any better deterrent? (Or pull it over on an extremely stupid opponent). |
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| DáinIronfoot |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:30 pm |
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Simple, powerful, and hurts lots of different fellowships. In other words, a classic Enquea. 
This gets a 4 from me, though it’s on the border between that and a 5. Good card. |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:25 pm |
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| ditto NBarden, but anyway his condition removal is quite nice, and with no cultural reinforcement, can be splashed in a wide variety of decks. |
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| macheteman |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:00 am |
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whoa, this is extremely powerful, i see some real dangers for any fellowship with him on the loose. a hearty 5 from me!
and enquea seems even more powerful than the great witch-king himself. often better abilities for less twilight. too bad you can’t play 4 copies of this enquea, enquea TotO and LoM in the same deck. alas. |
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| yerkamig |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:32 am |
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| Does Fates Entwined trigger this burden adding? |
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| JayPL |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:52 am |
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Cobra wrote:
It does beg for combos to be found, though. Here’s one: Ulaire Enquea, Duplicitous Lieutenant + Neekerbreekers’ Bog. A double-move could be real bad news for the fellowship, as each companion will either exert, or heal and add a burden.
I was wondering whether, during the move, fellowship is moving as a whole or companions are moving one-by-one. If the latter, moving to Neekerbreekers’ Bog with this Enquea could be quite interesting
and yes - burden adding IS trigerred by Fates Entwined, same with The Gaffer, Master Gardener
another thing I was thinking of - whether Trap Is Sprung can trigger Enquea’s text? What does ’Free Peoples player heals’ mean?  It must result from FP card text or sanctuary healing? If so, Neekerbreekers’ doesn’t work, same as Trap Is sprung |
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| corvus |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:02 am |
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yerkamig wrote: Does Fates Entwined trigger this burden adding?
Yes it does. For every heal made by fates entwined. |
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| Mouth of Saruman |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:22 am |
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JayPL wrote: another thing I was thinking of - whether Trap Is Sprung can trigger Enquea’s text? What does ’Free Peoples player heals’ mean? It must result from FP card text or sanctuary healing? If so, Neekerbreekers’ doesn’t work, same as Trap Is sprung
I think it refers to any method used by the Free Peoples player themselves, such as conditions or events, etc. If this is the case, then you are correct about Neekerbreekers’ Bog. However, it will be interesting if it does work with Shadow cards, because you could play Trap is Sprung to add a load of burdens. Ouch.
Overall, a great card that really lives up to its name. I give it a 4. |
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| macheteman |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:55 am |
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| i am pretty sure trap is sprung does not work with this minion, because the shadow player would be doing the healing, not the freeps player. |
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