Is Ranger of the North a Player Card?

[Teamjimby 630]

Is Ranger of the North a player card, an encounter card, or both?  If it's not a player card, does that mean its ability works on cards that are "immune to player card effects"?

Edited April 19, 2015 by Teamjimby

[ricedwlit 209]

According to The Lost Realms insert, p 2 (emphasis mine): "Encounter is a new keyword that appears on player cards with an encounter card back".

 

Based on that, I'd say they are a player card.

[JanB 85]

 

The better design of an ally, which comes out of the encounter deck. The Ranger of Ithilien got an Ally trait 

[CJMatos 54]

Correct JanB... but that is a card limited to a single scenario unlike Ranger of the North that may have been designed to be used in several scenarios aggregate with Ranger Summons...

 

So they needed to make it look like player cards in front but with back of encounter.

 

Although they could use that design and not put an encounter set....

[alogos 171]

The better design of an ally, which comes out of the encounter deck. The Ranger of Ithilien got an Ally trait 

 

And nowhere does traits do anything regarding of who control it and if he can be heal like an ally type...

Ally trait has a dead meaning.

For me it's

Edited April 22, 2015 by alogos

[urloony 213]

Sorry for the necro, but when exactly do you insert these into the encounter deck?  "In order to shuffle one of the set aside player cards into the encounter deck, a card effect must instruct the player to do so" (Lost Realm instructions p. 2).  Having played through the first three quests I didn't come across any card effect telling me to shuffle in a Ranger.  What am I missing?

Edited September 7, 2019 by urloony
nvrmnd I found the player cards to summon the ranger

[Ywingscum 842]

There’s an event card that does it.  A player card. I forget it’s name but obviously comes in the same pack

[dalestephenson 1,482]

"Ranger Summons" is the name of the event card; it's a one-cost Leadership event.