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Title: My axe is notched
Post by: Shapeshifter on May 25, 2011, 08:40:48 AM
The clarification says: "The strength bonus derived from this condition is based on the lowest number of tokens on either card. For example: If there are two [ELVEN] tokens on Final Count and three [DWARVEN] tokens on My Axe Is Notched, the strength bonus is +2."

Is the original card text wrong here? That the effect is triggered only when there are the same amount of tokens on each card..?
Title: Re: My axe is notched
Post by: FM on May 25, 2011, 09:01:55 AM
It's merely a clarification, because some playes thought you had to, say, spot 2 counters on My Axe is Notched and EXACTLY 2 counters on Final Count, so they issued the clarification to let you know that you can spot LESS tokens than the card have, meaning exactly what you said: if there are 2 tokens on My Axe is Notched and 3 on Final Count, you CAN spot them to give a +2 strength bonus, rather than gaining no bonus until you put a counter in My Axe is Notched and then start getting a +3 bonus out of the blue.
Title: Re: My axe is notched
Post by: Shapeshifter on May 25, 2011, 01:30:39 PM
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some playes thought you had to, say, spot 2 counters on My Axe is Notched and EXACTLY 2 counters on Final Count

As did I. Thanks for clearing things up.
Title: Re: My axe is notched
Post by: LOTRFreak15 on May 25, 2011, 03:49:23 PM
I never knew that. Sweet!!
Title: Re: My axe is notched
Post by: Shapeshifter on July 21, 2011, 06:32:38 AM
I suppose this is true also for other cards where you have to spot a certain amount of tokens(Gandalf, The White Wizard, Keep Your Forked Tongue)?
Title: Re: My axe is notched
Post by: leokula on July 21, 2011, 06:51:50 AM
I suppose this is true also for other cards where you have to spot a certain amount of tokens(Gandalf, The White Wizard, Keep Your Forked Tongue)?

Yeah. Thing is you don't need to spot everything that's in the board.
Title: Re: My axe is notched
Post by: FM on July 21, 2011, 07:27:17 AM
Leokula gives a perfect example to simplify this: you can always "fail" to spot anything the game tells you to, facing the consequences as appropriate. So, if you have a card that says to spot 3 twilight tokens and there are 7 out, you can fail to spot the other 4, only spotting 3. Same with the conditions, in the example I gave before, you can fail to spot the third counter on Final Count. Makes it easier to understand?