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gil-estel |
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:06 pm |
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Seeing the awesome article about blowing the Horn...you know the one where all the fuzz was about ...made me realize one thing.
Back in the Return of the King days the combo Gondorian Captain (fellowship: discard a fortification to remove a threat) + Base of the Mindolluin (fellowship: if you cannot spot two threats add a threat to play a fortification from your draw deck) was in fact tournement legal...and it makes me sad ........I always thought it broke the rule of  |
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bobtheorc |
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:04 pm |
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sickofpalantirs |
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:27 pm |
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basically you could cycle out your draw deck. |
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NBarden |
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:29 pm |
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AnxiousChieftain |
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:16 pm |
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Wait, wasn’t Gondorian Captain X-listed for a short amount of time? I’m pretty sure that after Mount Doom was released, he got X-ed because of that combo, but then once Standard format used Shadows sites he became legal again.
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CarpeGuitarrem |
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:17 pm |
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Correct, AC. But there’s no similar solution for the combo with New Chapter. |
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lem0nhead |
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:10 am |
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gil-estel wrote: Seeing the awesome article about blowing the Horn...you know the one where all the fuzz was about  ...made me realize one thing.
Back in the Return of the King days the combo Gondorian Captain (fellowship: discard a fortification to remove a threat) + Base of the Mindolluin (fellowship: if you cannot spot two threats add a threat to play a fortification from your draw deck) was in fact tournement legal...and it makes me sad  ........I always thought it broke the rule of
Rule of 4 regards taking cards into hand, this played them straight out thus bypassing the rule. Silliness. |
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sickofpalantirs |
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:28 am |
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SEE D made big mistakes even back in mount doom  |
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TheJord |
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:33 pm |
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Yeah look at Eowyn, Lady of Ithilien. No cultural enforcement! Death to many forms of shadows setups. |
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sickofpalantirs |
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 6:37 am |
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yeah she is broken. combo with almost anything with a spear of the mark and a horse. but I am straying off-topic. |
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