I believe we should hold back from such actions for the time being.
When the set is released and we have thoroughly playtested the new cards, then we will be able to judge better.

Note that it also COMPLETELY shuts down all Freeps archery, including the most potent card out there, Aragorn’s Bow, Ranger’s Longbow. Fair? Who said fairness was a standard in LOTR? Is Cavern Entrance fair? How about the previously mentioned Aragorn’s Bow, Ranger’s Longbow? Or any card which helps a strategy in any way, for that matter? Was Sword of the Fallen fair?

"Fair" is when you run nine companions down the site path with no cards in your deck, no cards in your hand, against an opponent whose deck only includes minions. No enhancements for anybody, just plain companion vs. minion.

I also recommended an R-listing in Expanded, where , , and archeries are the most potent. archery is shut down, but it already comes with built-in counters. Mumak Rider at Foot of Mount Doom, and Elven Armaments is gone for good.

Not to mention that if you want to use EA, you have to either not play possessions on a companion, or use the twilight to transfer that companion’s possessions onto another companion.

To refute your first point: If you include this card in your deck, your probably not using Aragorns Bow, Ranger’s Longbow or any type of archery anyway. Simple explanation, what you said doesn’t make sense! Freeps archery decks simply won’t include this card!

You’re mistaking fair with even, an EVEN match would be companions versus minions in an all out bloodbath. Fair is when both sides have perk cards that can enhance their battle abilities, but since both sides have them, it is still FAIR. When one side of the battle gets a card such as, oh, I don’t know, Elven Armaments perhaps? The battle goes lopsided and thus the game loses its FAIRNESS.

This card doesn’t need to be R-listed in expanded, since one copy of it is all it takes to shut down and archery. Whether you have 4 in play or 1 in play, it does the same thing. It should be edited to omit the second sentence, or X-ed. It’s as simple as that.

Umm...You said that in order to play Elven Armaments you must pay for it’s twilight cost? What? You have to do this for every card so I don’t think this counts as a "detrimental effect" for the card. Even if you did have to transfer the posession, I’d still say two twilight is well worth complete and utter protection against all forms of archery.

But now the card has already affected you. It stopped you from using an archery Freeps. Simply put, this card restricts what decks you can play it in. It DOES shut down FP archery, because you don’t even bother playing it.

Hold it...so fair != even?? Do you mean that Sauron vs. Sam is FAIR?

I could make an argument for plenty of cards being lopsided. You could easily argue that Sauron is lopsided. True, he’s balanced cost-wise, yet he still tips the scales when you play him. Just like the Balrog. Oh, and have you thought about a repeating Balrog deck with Fill With Fear?

There are supposed to be cards that are game-makers. That’s what the Rare cards are all about. Aragorn’s Bow, Ranger’s Longbow is as fair as EA. Yet, it shapes a meta. Or G for Grand. In no way can you convince me that that’s simply a "perk" to enhance abilities.

According to that logic, there’s no point to the R-list. If you only have one copy of the card in your deck, that’s not a high probability that you’ll draw it until late in the game. And even then, it can get discarded. And at Foot of Mount Doom, it goes poof pretty easily.

Elven Armaments has to go on a companion with no possessions. To achieve that, you must either not play possessions on that companion, or transfer away that companion’s possessions, which can translate to or extra twilight.

Oh, come on! That’s not true and you know it, if someone wants to use a freeps archery deck that bad, EA isn’t gonna stop em!

You’re logic on the R-list doesn’t make sense. Elven Armaments is broken because one copy can erase the archery phase forever. So what if you might not draw it on site four or five? When do you really need to protect against a huge archery attack? Thats right! The third region, it doesn’t matter if you only have it in play for site nine, thats all the playtime it needs to see to completely ruin your opponents archery! Other cards are on the R-list because they are not fair when used in a combo, which can only be exocuted with multiple copies.

Oh, darn, you can’t play posessions on your Unique elven companion. If you’re playing an archery deck, it wouldn’t matter if you add a BILLION twilight cause once you’ve got Elven Armaments out on the field on a unique companion, no amount of twilight can help the archery shadow take down the elves. They don’t have enough strength to do any damage in the skirmish phase, so once you’ve got this card out against an archery deck with no posession removal you’ve won. It’s insane, what is the archery shadow gonna resort to? Swarm? No, they’re too expensive for that.

So basically once you’ve got this card out against an archery deck, their only chance is to run for site 9 with their freeps as fast as they can, and since the person with EA on the field now knows there is no chance of his freeps dying, he or she will probably double or triple every turn. Don’t you see? This card can win games by itself! That is not what LOTR is about. LOTR is about strategy and planning, not one stupid umbrella card that completely wipes out an entire meta of play. This card is just rediculous.