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Treebeard
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Type: Ally Sphere: Neutral Cost: 4 Willpower: 2 Attack: 4 Defense: 3 Hit Points: 5 Ent. Cannot have restricted attachments. Treebeard enters play exhausted and collects 1 resource each resource phase. These can be used to pay for Ent cards played from your hand. Action: Spend 2 resources from Treebeard’s pool to ready an Ent character. Set: The Antlered Crown Number: 146 Quantity: 3 Illustrator: Mike Nash |
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I found this excerpt at,
http://boardgamegeek...commit-quest-ca
I emailed FFG and received a response from Caleb back in February:
Hi Michael,
If a card allows you to quest / attack / defend without exhausting, it is still necessary for the character to be ready in order to perform any of those actions.
Glad you're enjoying the game!
Cheers,
Caleb
This is also true when using the attachment Light of Valinor.
From FAQ concerning Light of Valinor:
This is the same situation so no, Ents that enter play exhausted cannot quest using Galadriel's ability.
If you can somehow ready them before questing then they would benefit from Galadriels ability. Just not while exhausted.
Sounds like a job for Ever Vigilant.
Random thought - Treebeard can be used to pay for Ent cards played from your hand, so he doesn't require resource matching if the trait is correct. Does that mean you can play a zero cost Ent event, such as Entmoot, without having a Lore resource generator?
No, it's the same with elrond and 0 cost allies. It has been answerd by Caleb before. It is a pitty nevertheless.
I don't get why slothgodfather's example doesn't work with Entmoot, since Entmoot actually has the Ent trait printed on it. Could you please explain yourself?
Treebeard's text lets you use his resource to pay for Ent cards. But it does not explicitly say it grants a resource match. We have seen this effect elsewhere with Elrond/Radagast/GoodHarvest and a non-zero cost card can be paid for entirely from these source without ever having a resource match.
But, zero-cost cards have the rules restriction that you need to be able to provide a resource match to play them.
So a deck with no Lore-resource heroes can't play an Entmoot, any more than it could play any other zero-cost Lore card, and the Treebeard power as written hasn't changed this, since it hasn't granted us a resource match.
Yep. His resources can be used to pay for Ent cards, but you aren't paying anything for a zero cost card, so his text simply doesn't apply to when you try to play that card.