Council of Elrond

Card text:

TW:

... Bearer may make a corruption check modified by -2 to cancel a strike; ...

LE:

... Bearer may make a corruption check modified by -2 to cancel a non-Undead non-Nazgûl strike; ...

This allows the bearer to cancel a strike not only against himself but against any character (not even in his company). I don't know if this has ever occured to someone from ICE in their times but I find the current text quite inconsistent with the effect as described in the LotR books. I know this is normally no reason to release an erratum, though.

Anyway, I propose that the text be changed by inserting "against himself" at the end of the lines cited above.

Speaking as an observer:

I disagree from a balance viewpoint; the One Ring carries a significant amount of corruption, which is already a counterbalance against this, as well as the innate difficulty of getting it out in the first place. At worst, if this somehow became a common strategy, hazards that are more directly anti-One Ring would simply need to be included in deck construction.

The most likely way to do it even remotely safely is to use Hobbit+Fellowships at a Haven, but such a set up is already costing you in terms of influence; by definition, a company sitting at a haven has no need to cancel strikes, so you have to have another company wandering around to take advantage of it.

I think One Ring strike cancelling belongs in the category of "powerful, but difficult to realistically pull off in the context of the 2-deck game." In longer games, it's hard to imagine a scenario where it wouldn't be better simply to dunk the thing and have done.

This is another one on the list of issues the new NetRep-team and new CoE will have to deal with.
I tend to agree with Bandobras, but the simple thematic misrepresentation is quite irksome indeed.

Khamul the Easterling wrote:Anyway, I propose that the text be changed by inserting "against himself" at the end of the lines cited above.

This is the real errata that The One Ring needs.