•Ring of Salubrity
Artifact • Ring
Vitality +1
Bearer must be a Dwarf.
Response: If bearer is about to take a wound, discard a card from hand to prevent that.
Regroup: Exert bearer twice and discard this artifact to heal each other companion.
“‘But now, if we must go without the rewards and the weregilds that are owed to us, the sooner we return to our own lands the better pleased we shall be.’”

•Thráin, Durin’s Heir
Companion • Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Thráin, add a burden or 2 threats.
Maneuver: Add a burden to play a artifact or tale from your discard pile. Limit twice per turn.
Response: Each time a Shadow event is played, you may exert Thráin or discard a card from hand to reveal the top card of your draw deck and take it into hand. If it is a card, you may heal a Dwarf.
“‘But surely my own kin will not desert me?’”

•Ring of Salubrity
Artifact • Ring
Vitality +1
Bearer must be a Dwarf.
Response: If bearer is about to take a wound, discard a card from hand to prevent that.
Regroup: Exert bearer twice and discard this artifact to heal each other companion.
“‘But now, if we must go without the rewards and the weregilds that are owed to us, the sooner we return to our own lands the better pleased we shall be.’”
make it only 1 exertion, not many a dwarf can survive taking the equivalent of 3 wounds.

•Thráin, Durin’s Heir
Companion • Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Thráin, add a burden or 2 threats.
Maneuver: Add a burden to play a artifact or tale from your discard pile. Limit twice per turn.
Response: Each time a Shadow event is played, you may exert Thráin or discard a card from hand to reveal the top card of your draw deck and take it into hand. If it is a card, you may heal a Dwarf.
“‘But surely my own kin will not desert me?’”

Oops. Wrong post. Ignore this.

His Companions Followed Him
Event • Skirmish
Spot Thorin or Dáin Ironfoot and X threats to play a Dwarf; that Dwarf’s twilight cost is -X. You may immediately assign that Dwarf to any skirmish involving a wounded companion.
“Suddenly there was a great shout, and from the Gate came a trumpet call. They had forgotten Thorin!”

Fell or Fled Before Them
Event • Assignment or Skirmish
Toil 1.
Exert Thorin 3 times (or 2 times if at a battleground) to make him or an unbound companion with the Thorin signet strength +4, damage +1, defender +1, and unable to take wounds until the regroup phase.
“Thorin wielded his axe with mighty strokes, and nothing seemed to harm him.”

•Quest of Erebor
Condition • Support Area
Tale. To play, spot 3 Dwarves and another Free Peoples race (except Elf).
Each time a Dwarf companion moves to a mountain or underground site, you may remove 1 (limit 4).
“‘I do not suppose that when it started Thorin had any real hope of destroying Smaug. There was no hope. Yet it happened.’”

•The Battle of Five Armies
Condition • Support Area
Tale. Plays during the maneuver phase. To play, spot five cultures (including other players’ cultures).
While this condition is in your support area, at the start of each maneuver phase you may name three cultures. Until the regroup phase (or until you lose initiative), each time a card from any of those cultures is played, you may make that card’s twilight cost -1 or +1. If you lose initiative, transfer this card to an opponent’s support area.
“So began a battle that none had expected...and it was very terrible.”

His Companions Followed Him
Event • Skirmish
Spot Thorin or Dáin Ironfoot and X threats to play a Dwarf; that Dwarf’s twilight cost is -X. You may immediately assign that Dwarf to any skirmish involving a wounded companion.
“Suddenly there was a great shout, and from the Gate came a trumpet call. They had forgotten Thorin!”
nice

Fell or Fled Before Them
Event • Assignment or Skirmish
Toil 1.
Exert Thorin 3 times (or 2 times if at a battleground) to make him or an unbound companion with the Thorin signet strength +4, damage +1, defender +1, and unable to take wounds until the regroup phase.
“Thorin wielded his axe with mighty strokes, and nothing seemed to harm him.”
overcosted cut cost to 2.

•Quest of Erebor
Condition • Support Area
Tale. To play, spot 3 Dwarves and another Free Peoples race (except Elf).
Each time a Dwarf companion moves to a mountain or underground site, you may remove (limit ).
“‘I do not suppose that when it started Thorin had any real hope of destroying Smaug. There was no hope. Yet it happened.’”
cut cost to 1.

•The Battle of Five Armies
Condition • Support Area
Tale. Plays during the maneuver phase. To play, spot five cultures (including other players’ cultures).
While this condition is in your support area, at the start of each maneuver phase you may name three cultures. Until the regroup phase (or until you lose initiative), each time a card from any of those cultures is played, you may make that card’s twilight cost -1 or +1. If you lose initiative, transfer this card to an opponent’s support area.
“So began a battle that none had expected...and it was very terrible.”

Dáin’s DC Duos #200!

200 Duos! I never even got CLOSE to that in the original run of Duos on Decipher’s boards. Hurray!

To celebrate, here’s a Double Duo of some of the most powerful and interesting cards not just in the culture, but in the whole set. Also, I’ll be posting some bonus cards throughout the weekend. And since I can’t give anyone cake, I’ll instead give anyone who reviews these cards a celebratory . Hey, better than nothing, right?

Enjoy!

His Companions Followed Him
Event • Skirmish
Spot Thorin or Dáin Ironfoot and a threat to play a Dwarf. You may immediately assign that Dwarf to any skirmish involving a wounded companion.
“Suddenly there was a great shout, and from the Gate came a trumpet call. They had forgotten Thorin!”
Interesting... would that make 2 companions on one minion?

Fell or Fled Before Them
Event • Assignment or Skirmish
Toil 1.
Exert Thorin 3 times (or 2 times if at a battleground) to make him or an unbound companion with the Thorin signet strength +4, damage +1, defender +1, and unable to take wounds until the regroup phase.
“Thorin wielded his axe with mighty strokes, and nothing seemed to harm him.”
Cool. Reminds me of some card from Towers block. I forget the name right now...

•Quest of Erebor
Condition • Support Area
Tale. To play, spot 3 Dwarves and another Free Peoples race (except Elf).
Each time the fellowship moves to a mountain or underground site, you may remove for each Dwarf companion you can spot (limit ).
“‘I do not suppose that when it started Thorin had any real hope of destroying Smaug. There was no hope. Yet it happened.’”
Cool.

•The Battle of Five Armies
Condition • Support Area
Tale. Plays only during the maneuver phase. To play, spot a Dwarf and five cultures.
While this condition is in your support area, at the start of each maneuver phase you may name three cultures. Until the regroup phase (or until you lose initiative), each time a card from any of those cultures is played, you may make that card’s twilight cost -1 or +1.
If you lose initiative, transfer this card to an opponent’s support area.
“So began a battle that none had expected...and it was very terrible.”
GEEEEEZ.

Weird, but workable.

Dáin’s DC Duos #201-202

Dwarven Mattock
Possession • Hand Weapon
Strength +2
Bearer must be a Dwarf.
While bearer bears no other weapons, bearer is strength +1 and damage +1.
“In battle they wielded heavy two-handed mattocks....”

I think it costs too much. You could drop it down to one, safely.

Dwarven Short Sword
Possession • Hand Weapon
Strength +1
Bearer must be a Dwarf.
This weapon may be borne in addition to 1 other hand weapon.
Skirmish: Discard this weapon to wound a minion bearer is skirmishing (twice if that minion is an Orc or Uruk-hai). The Shadow player may remove (X) to prevent X of those wounds.
“...each of them had also a short broad sword at his side....”

Once again, I think it’s two expensive. Free would be fine.

Dwarven Knife
Possession • Hand Weapon
Bearer must be a Dwarf.
This weapon may be borne in addition to 1 other hand weapon.
While bearer bears no other hand weapons, bearer is strength +1.
This weapon may not be discarded by Shadow cards.
“Then the battle began. Some of the dwarves had knives....”

I’m liking this new strategy. for coming up with it!

Bow of Horn
Possession • Ranged Weapon
Bearer must be a Dwarf.
Archery: If the Shadow has initiative, exert bearer or discard a card from hand to make the fellowship archery total +1 (limit once per phase).
Archery: If you have initiative, exert bearer and discard a card from hand to make the fellowship archery total +1 (limit once per phase).
“Then Thorin seized a bow of horn and shot an arrow at the speaker.”

This one took me a minute, then I figured it out. Good text, although you could drop this to 1 twilight cost probably.

Edit: One thing I just found. Maybe you intended this. If someone had four cards in his hand he could exert and discard to make the total +1, then the shadow has initiative, so they could do it again, correct?