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+package com.gempukku.lotro.cards.set7.gondor;
+
+import com.gempukku.lotro.cards.AbstractAlly;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.cards.PlayConditions;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.cards.effects.choose.ChooseAndDiscardCardsFromHandEffect;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.cards.modifiers.MinionSiteNumberModifier;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.common.*;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.filters.Filters;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.game.PhysicalCard;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.game.state.LotroGame;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.logic.actions.ActivateCardAction;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.logic.effects.ChooseActiveCardEffect;
+import com.gempukku.lotro.logic.timing.Action;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Set: The Return of the King
+ * Side: Free
+ * Culture: Gondor
+ * Twilight Cost: 1
+ * Type: Ally • Home 3T • Man
+ * Strength: 6
+ * Vitality: 1
+ * Site: 3T
+ * Game Text: Maneuver: If you have initiative, discard 2 cards from hand to make the site number of a minion +2 until
+ * the regroup phase.
+ */
+public class Card7_097 extends AbstractAlly {
+    public Card7_097() {
+        super(1, Block.TWO_TOWERS, 3, 6, 1, Race.MAN, Culture.GONDOR, "Gondorian Merchant", true);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected List<? extends Action> getExtraInPlayPhaseActions(String playerId, LotroGame game, final PhysicalCard self) {
+        if (PlayConditions.canUseFPCardDuringPhase(game.getGameState(), Phase.MANEUVER, self)
+                && PlayConditions.hasInitiative(game, Side.FREE_PEOPLE)
+                && PlayConditions.canDiscardFromHand(game, playerId, 2, Filters.any)) {
+            ActivateCardAction action = new ActivateCardAction(self);
+            action.appendCost(
+                    new ChooseAndDiscardCardsFromHandEffect(action, playerId, false, 2));
+            action.appendEffect(
+                    new ChooseActiveCardEffect(self, playerId, "Choose a minion", CardType.MINION) {
+                        @Override
+                        protected void cardSelected(LotroGame game, PhysicalCard card) {
+                            game.getModifiersEnvironment().addUntilStartOfPhaseModifier(
+                                    new MinionSiteNumberModifier(self, card, null, 2), Phase.REGROUP);
+                        }
+                    });
+            return Collections.singletonList(action);
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+}