Council of Elrond Meeting Minutes June 22, 2025 Present: Bruno (Bruce), Ethan (DamienX207), Felipe (fisilva1), Marc (sarma72), Ralph (Goblin King) Not present: Alvaro (Mordakai), Miguel (Siraynad) 1. Welcome! 2. Review of agenda 3. Committee reports and tasks a. Rules Committee – Ethan (organizer),...

Council of Elrond Meeting Minutes April 13, 2025 Present: Alvaro (Mordakai), Bruno (Bruce), Ethan (DamienX207), Felipe (fisilva1), Marc (sarma72), Miguel (Siraynad), Ralph (Goblin King) 1. Welcome! 2. Review of agenda 3. Committee reports a. Rules Committee – Ethan (organizer), Bruno, Felipe, Migue...

Since FotO would directly affect Saruman's corruption check during the first step after the game has been called and doesn't have any active conditions other than Saruman being in play, it would be playable on Saruman at that point (similar to Magical Harp). You just couldn't get its effect during y...

I have been answering Darksatin's question in terms of the Council of Elrond tournament rules based on the historical literature, as with all due respect I prefer to not get dragged into arguments about personal interpretations that ignore CoE rules ad nauseum (just noting that there IS a rule about...

I think that the effects that state "until end of (the) turn" would be OK. They would be active infinitely. When the turn ends, the effect ends, literally based on the English text as well as ICE's NetRep ruling. There's no reason nor evidence that the short-event's effects would be activ...

Do the +2 is effective during the Free Council ? No, once the current turn ends, the effects of FotO (and other short-events) go away. For further citation, this was confirmed by ICE's NetRep on 10/7/96. The fact that actions that would reduce a character’s corruption point total or prevent a chara...

An eagle-eyed questioner noticed a typo in the CoE rules document about the character draft (Rule 1.9), which previously suggested that leftover/duplicated characters from the draft could only be shuffled into the play deck if they didn't exceed the 10 non-avatar character limit of the "combine...

Hi all - I believe the "and sideboard" in Rule 1.9 may be an unfortunate typo; yes, per Rule 1.6: A sideboard is a set of cards set off to the side during the game, and which may contain any number of resources, hazards, and/or characters , but which must adhere to any other deck restricti...

Council of Elrond Meeting Minutes February 1, 2025 Present: Alvaro (Mordakai), Bruno (Bruce), Ethan (DamienX207), Felipe (fisilva1), Marc (sarma72), Miguel (Siraynad), Ralph (Goblin King) 1. Welcome and introductions! 2. Election of Chair and Vice-Chair Ethan was nominated for Chair – Passed 7-0 Al...

Previously the Challenge Deck format was explained by saying that each player either brings a Challenge Deck to the tournament, or purchases one at the tournament. It was pointed out that players could also potentially borrow a deck, either from the tournament organizer or a fellow player, so we hav...

Hi, and thanks for the question. We discussed the round times extensively, especially for online play, but there were a couple of reasons that we landed on 90 minutes being an appropriate length for 2-deck rounds during an in-person tournament, based on a lot more data than was available when the Co...

Hi all, my name is Ethan and I served on the Council of Elrond for the term that is now coming to a close. Please consider this my re-application thereof. I believe wholeheartedly in the role that the CoE fills for the worldwide playerbase of MeCCG, and although I know all too well that this work ca...

Council of Elrond Quarterly Meeting Agenda 2024Q4 Meeting November 4, 2024 Present: Ethan (DamienX207), Felipe (fisilva1), Kodi (kodi), Manuel (Manuel), Marc (Sarma72), Nico (Vastor Peredhil) Not present: Alvaro (Mordakai), Marcos (Marcos), Tom (rezwits) 1. Welcome 2. Review of agenda 3. Committee ...

For the past two years (and even longer than that for me!), the Council of Elrond's Rules Committee has been working to compile a clear and precise MeCCG rulebook for CoE tournament play. I am both honored and humbled to present the “public beta” version of this very long work: http://www.councilofe...

I can say quite sincerely that nobody on the RC has an agenda when it comes to Strider. ICE's NetRep ruled it this way. We have found 0 evidence to overturn that, and 0 evidence has been provided to overturn it. Lobbing personal attacks is just so unnecessary and absurd and I personally find Theo's ...