Forest Snare

By autio, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

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leptokurt said:

radiskull said:

You do. You deal a shadow card to each enemy engaged with you at the start of the combat phase.

This seems like a dumb rule, but there is a shadow effect that makes you discard attachments, so if you lose the forest snare mid-combat phase... *chomp*

Just to specify this a bit more for clarity:

That doesn't mean that if the trapped enemy gets dealt said shadow effect he would get rid off his card (his shadow effects are still cancelled), but if another enemy gets a shadow effect that forces you to discard an attachement (and you have only played Forest Snare or you don't want to disard one of the others), then you're in trouble.

So, even if the Snared enemy is dealt a Shadow card that discards an attachment, that card is not resolved and he remains trapped. Correct?

Would it make any difference if, for simplicity reasons, just deal a Shadow card on the enSnared enemy, never flip it till the time it goes to the discard pile and then flip it as usual?

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yes, i believe radiskull is referring to a situation like:

say you have dol guldur orcs and east bight patrol both with face down shadow cards- dol guldur orcs is snared

you have to chose the patrol to attack as they arent snared- so they do, you flip the shadow card and that card doesnt have an effect- all fine

then you flip the snared orcs shadow card and see it would have discarded an attatchment, but it doesnt matter as you discard it without carrying it out.

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on a related note, has it ever been asked whether snared wargs who get a shadow card without effect return to staging area?

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Since the wargs go to the staging area "after it attacks", there's no way for that to trigger if it can't attack. So no, they wouldn't.

Serazu, you said "Would it make any difference if, for simplicity reasons, just deal a Shadow card on the enSnared enemy, never flip it till the time it goes to the discard pile and then flip it as usual?"

That's actually the way you're supposed to play it. You shouldn't actually see the Shadow card that's dealt until the end of the combat phase (which could matter, if you're trying to avoid "that one card that will kill us all".)