A twilight restrictive card, Beauty is Fading is one of the few cards in the game that can discard a companion (with Fierce in Despair being another well known method) from play. That said, Beauty is Fading suffers from a huge twilight cost. It's restrictive twilight cost falls in line with its “Swiss Army Knife” ability to discard anything of the Shadow player's choosing. With the cheapest Nazgul at twilight (with Morgul Gates), the twilight pool would need to play the card, and the option of discarding a companion or ally is only achieved without a Free Peoples condition or possession in play.

Ulaire Cantea, Lieutenant of Dol Guldur, Stricken Dumb, Fear, and to a lesser extent, Loathsome, Ulaire Cantea, Faster than Winds, Mastered By Madness, and Black Dart are all more cost-effective Nazgul cards with more direct results. Of course, Grond, Hammer of the Underworld is the best card for dismantling a Free Peoples player's support cards.

• Nearly unparalleled ability to discard a card from play

• Very expensive - at twilight a shadow player could play another large minion, or several smaller minions