Noble Hound

[Konrad Klar]

Playable at any tapped or untapped Border-hold . In all cases, Noble Hound must be assigned a strike before any strike can be assigned to its controlling character. Discard Noble Hound to cancel any effect that would take its controlling character prisoner (does not protect other characters from being taken prisoner).

Card Erratum: Add the sentence: "If Noble Hound is tapped or wounded, treat it as
though it were untapped for the purposes of assigning strikes."

Animals. Each wounded character faces one strike. All body checks resulting from successful strikes are modified by +1. Each untapped character in the company may tap to cancel a strike against a wounded character. ...the great bats swirled about the heads and ears of the elves and men, or fastened vampire-like on the stricken.-Hob

The errata for Noble Hound literally means that Noble Hound is not eligible to face a strike from Carrion Feeders attack. The goal of the errata is probably a removing a conflict between the two factors that decide about an order of assigning a strikes: text of Noble Hound and a rule that says that an untapped characters are first to be assigned a strikes, before tapped and wounded characters.

I propose the following erratum:

Playable at any tapped or untapped Border-hold . In all cases, Noble Hound must be assigned a strike before any strike can be assigned to its controlling character. Discard Noble Hound to cancel any effect that would take its controlling character prisoner (does not protect other characters from being taken prisoner). If Noble Hound is tapped or wounded, treat it as though it were untapped for the purposes of an order of assigning strikes.

[Theo]

Characters facing strikes is not the same as characters being assigned to face strikes. This previously came up in discussion of Bow of Alatar. Carrion Feeder strikes are never assigned.

[Konrad Klar]

Carrion Feeder strikes are never assigned.

They are. Players just have nothing particular to decide at the stage of assigning (unless a number of strikes is reduced to a specific number).
Some actions (canceling, changing a number of strikes, playing a some cards) may be taken only before strikes are assigned.

If Carrion Feeder strikes would never be assigned, then the attack could be canceled between strike sequences.

[Theo]

Players just have nothing particular to decide at the stage of assigning (unless a number of strikes is reduced to a specific number).
Some actions (canceling, changing a number of strikes, playing a some cards) may be taken only before strikes are assigned.

Increasing (or reducing) the number of strikes from an attack which does not specify a number of strikes does not affect the attack.

If Carrion Feeder strikes would never be assigned, then the attack could be canceled between strike sequences.

There is still an "assign strike phase" during which nothing happens because there are no strikes to assign, after which (once characters begin facing strikes) the attack cannot be canceled.

[Konrad Klar]

Increasing (or reducing) the number of strikes from an attack which does not specify a number of strikes does not affect the attack.

If an attack states all characters in a company face a strike, then effects which allow a
character to face more than one strike have no effect against the attack. Similarly,
effects that change the attack's number of strikes have no effect. As an exception,
effects which reduce the number of strikes to a specific number do work.

Effects of Hounds of Sauron (2), Adûnaphel Unleashed (1) are such exceptions.

There is still an "assign strike phase" during which nothing happens because there are no strikes to assign, after which (once characters begin facing strikes) the attack cannot be canceled.

I agree. Sometimes players just cannot decide how to assign a strikes. It is decided a priory (like in case of next attack of Assassin, Slayer, or an attack from Lucky Search).

[CDavis7M]

Card Erratum: Add the sentence: "If Noble Hound is tapped or wounded, treat it as
though it were untapped for the purposes of assigning strikes."

The errata for Noble Hound literally means that Noble Hound is not eligible to face a strike from Carrion Feeders attack.

The errata literally means that Noble Hound is untapped for purposes of assigning strikes.

Strikes from Carrion Feeders are not "assigned."