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Heir of Mardil
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Type: Attachment Sphere: Leadership Cost: 1 Title. Attach to a Noble hero. Response: After attached hero gains any number of resources from a card effect, exhaust Heir of Mardil to ready attached hero. “...in my turn I bore it, and so did each eldest son of our house, far back into the vanished years before the failing of the kings...†-Denethor, The Return of the King Set: Celebrimbor's Secret Number: 113 Quantity: 3 Illustrator: Alexandre Dainche |
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Excellent for all noble heroes, but particularly good on Theodred. His days of sole weak questing are over.
Could be pretty great Gloin as well.
I could also see this potentially comboing with Steward of Gondor in a big way. Elrond with Steward and Vilya can already generate a ton of value per turn, and this card would make it even better. That is a three card combo, though, and may take a bit to set up.
Gloin would have been a serious candidate too, but he 'll desperately need some healing between his two defensive stances or he wouldn't survive the ordeal. Theodred needs no other card but this to work.
Card effect is not clear to me... does Thorin's extra resource during Resource phase count as a card effect? Likewise, a noble hero with Resourceful?
Yes and Yes would be my guess. I'm pretty new to this particular game, but in my experience with other card games anything that happens because a card says it happens is a card effect.
It should be Yes. I suspect it was only meant to avoid the naturally earned resources each turn.
I agree. Every resource that your hero gains outside of normal game flow (i.e. ouside of one resource in resource phase) should be considered as a card effect. But there is a big difference between 'gain resource' and 'move resource'. Move resource won't trigger this effect.
The easiest way to get this stand function is to have Steward on them as well and just use Steward after you kneel them for something. However, functionally, this means you have to wait until you kneel before generating the extra resources.
I would think so, but there are few times you need readying in planning phase.
It works exceptinoally great with with the Leader of Men boon from LotR saga. If you put both on Aragorn (or other Noble hero). After you guests succefully that hero gets 1 resource and readies.
Also Gandalf's Staff, Errand-rider, already mentioned Steward, Theodred and so on.
i hadn't thought of Gandalf's staff. solid option.
I don't think Errand Rider works as that "moves" a resource. Others should all work though.
True enough. If you combo it with "Peace, and Thought" though you can strongly mitigate the drawback of that card.
From FAQ:
Indeed yes. Or you can avoid paying 2 resources for caught in the Web and so on. There are of course some examples when it comes handy.
My apologies, I somehow got confused by the difference between gaining and adding.
No need to apologize, that's what this forum is for.
Btw yes, some aspects are confusing and with FAQ of many pages it's hard to keep up.
Ah, fair, enough, my mistake.
I think the name of this card is a dead giveaway as to who it should go on - Denethor! He actually is the Heir of Mardil. Also, it says attach to a noble hero and Denethor was played by John Noble in the films! See what they did there!! Playing it on Denethor along with his rightful title of Steward of Gondor would mean that you could manipulate the encounter deck at the beginning of the planning phase, exhaust SoG to award him 2 resources and thus ready him so he can be there to defend in the attack phase!
Similarly Beravor wouldn't be a bad shout either as you could use her ability to draw 2 cards at the beginning of the planning phase and still be able to use her for questing or combat. The only problem here is she isn't noble so you would only be able to set this up in campaign mode. If only there was a non-boon card that granted noble to a hero!
Denethor is a really good option for this card. It isn't thematic, but I like it on Gimli or Gloin as well.
Another good option is Cirdan. Commit him to the quest and ready him (with Arwen) to trigger Narya. Of course we have the Light Of Valinor, but for that there are a lot of other targets as well (Glorfindel above all).