Looks like Tales From The Cards Corruption mechanic has been implemented into the game. Wonder if Caleb and Matt saw it or both parties came up with the idea. Anyway, I love it all the same. Slightly different but still awesome.

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Hehe. Well, they design things way in advance, so I'm sure they came up with this a long time before I came out with First Age. I think it's more a case of the most logical way to simulate corruption in the game (turning a hero into an enemy).

Anyway, I love that they went there with this treachery!

So will defeating the enemy (hero) act as discarding the condition attachment and therefore return it to your play area. Or will defeating the hero kill them.

Basically is the only way to get them back by using cards that get rid of condition attachments?

I wonder if there'll be any quest-built-in way to discard this condition, because decks without any condition-removal (or treachery cancellation) will be totally screwed!

P.S.: I would attach it to Fatty Bolger any day now.

So if you attached it to Boromir could you trigger his second ability to discard him? Do you have control of the hero even though he is attacking you?

I think we may get a neutral card to discard conditions, hopefully Narya, so pretty much any deck can discard it. Otherwise, this treachery is too insane.

On the bright side, this treachery gives you the opportunity to finally kill those heroes that always annoyed you.

So if you attached it to Boromir could you trigger his second ability to discard him? Do you have control of the hero even though he is attacking you?

Questionable. From one point, you lose the control over hero so I would say that you can't use his actions. From the other one, there is actually encounter cards with printed actions that players can use.

Obviously I thought of Boromir because of his famous last actions, but Caldara is an even bigger target. If you could put Corruption on her and then trigger her ability followed by the ubiquitous F&F then the treachery isn't very treacherous. Another problematic target could be Loragorn, trigger his ability while he's an enemy before killing him off. I'm sure there are others.

It's only logical that you cannot use their printed actions. Perhaps it'll be clarified in next FAQ. But to think of it if it would be legal - another player could trigger Caldara even if he wasn't original owner of her. So, one player corrupts Caldara, then the other monospirit one triggers her ability and gets 3 allies out of the deal. Or the original owner of Caldara lends him an additional spirit hero with Desperate alliance and here we go 4 allies from the discard pile. Nope, corrupted heroes should totally get their actions stripped until they come back to their senses.

Could you even use Landroval to kill them and bring them back? Or is it invalid because they are no longer a hero?

And what about non-action abilities? For example, Dain's passive effect would still work, right? There must be some clarification in the rule book about how this works.

I think they did a big mistake when didn't blanked a hero's text box with this corruption attachment.