Up My Sleeve
Event • Fellowship
Each time Gandalf is played, you may add to take this event into hand from your discard pile.
Spot Gandalf to Unlock a card (and all cards borne by that card) until the end of the regroup phase.
’And I kept them, though without any design of my own, until the moment when they would prove most useful.’
H3 C 80
works for me. consider giving the shadow a way to prevent, though it has enough text already

Blade of Beleriand
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Res: +2
Bearer must be an Elf.
If bearer is Ring-bound, he or she is resistance -2.
Bearer gains terror 1.
Skirmish: Heal a minion skirmishing bearer to reveal the top card of your draw deck.
’They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West...’
H3 C 27
kewl

Blade of the West
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Res: +2
Bearer must be an Elf or Wizard.
If bearer is Ring-bound, he or she is resistance -2.
Bearer gains terror 1.
Skirmish: Heal a minion skirmishing bearer to take into hand an event from your discard pile of the same culture as bearer.
H3 C 28

Unless people think that this idea would be overpowered, I’ll add a vitality bonus to the rings. Thanks EL and DI!

If anything needs to be dropped ever id drop terro as i think its an OP mecahnism. A cool one i like it, but i think its just too strong. Its like giving random people ugluk ugly fellows text and he is hard enough as it is.


So is terror, as you’ll see reasonably soon!

See note above!


Elves can Unlock things with a cost recurring fellowship/maneuver event from the first set, as can Gandalf (though you haven’t seen his version of the cycle yet as it’s from this set), though the easiest way to Unlock it is with the White Council Gandalf who can Lock or Unlock a card at the start of his skirmish until the end of the regroup phase. Is this too much?

Probably. If you can unlock this card that quickly is too strong.

I’m vaguely unhappy with Masters of Lore, but unfortunately I’m not altogether convinced by DI’s expert suggestions, so I’ll leave it for the moment and think on it.

Talking of that card that I mentioned above, here it is (you may remember the rest of the cycle for and from the first set, but you probably won’t!):

Up My Sleeve
Event • Fellowship
Each time Gandalf is played, you may add to take this event into hand from your discard pile.
Spot Gandalf to Unlock a card (and all cards borne by that card) until the end of the regroup phase.
’And I kept them, though without any design of my own, until the moment when they would prove most useful.’
H3 C 80

Yeah its a cool card but be careful the power of the locked cards you release if its easy to unlock stuff.

Blade of Beleriand
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Res: +2
Bearer must be an Elf.
If bearer is Ring-bound, he or she is resistance -2.
Bearer gains terror 1.
Skirmish: Heal a minion skirmishing bearer to reveal the top card of your draw deck.
’They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West...’
H3 C 27

Erm seems ok.

Blade of the West
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Res: +2
Bearer must be an Elf or Wizard.
If bearer is Ring-bound, he or she is resistance -2.
Bearer gains terror 1.
Skirmish: Heal a minion skirmishing bearer to take into hand an event from your discard pile of the same culture as bearer.
H3 C 28

Think this is too powerful drop the terror and lower cost to 1.

Thranduil

Up My Sleeve
Event • Fellowship
Each time Gandalf is played, you may add to take this event into hand from your discard pile.
Spot Gandalf to Unlock a card (and all cards borne by that card) until the end of the regroup phase.
’And I kept them, though without any design of my own, until the moment when they would prove most useful.’
H3 C 80

Blade of Beleriand
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Res: +2
Bearer must be an Elf.
If bearer is Ring-bound, he or she is resistance -2.
Bearer gains terror 1.
Skirmish: Heal a minion skirmishing bearer to reveal the top card of your draw deck.
’They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West...’
H3 C 27

Blade of the West
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Res: +2
Bearer must be an Elf or Wizard.
If bearer is Ring-bound, he or she is resistance -2.
Bearer gains terror 1.
Skirmish: Heal a minion skirmishing bearer to take into hand an event from your discard pile of the same culture as bearer.
H3 C 28

• Curunir’s Staff (Free Peoples)
Artifact • Staff
Vit: +1
Bearer must be Curunir.
Skirmish: Exert Curunir twice to reveal the top card of your draw deck. Make a minion skirmishing him strength -X where X is the twilight cost of the card revealed.
Saruman is said (by Gandalf himself) to have been the chief of the Istari...
H3 R 83
maybe cut it to exert him once, limit twice

• Seeing Stone of Orthanc, Focus of Sight (Free Peoples)
Artifact • Palantir
Res: -1
Bearer must be Curunir.
Maneuver: Add a burden to reveal the top 3 cards of your draw deck. Then you may discard a Free Peoples card revealed to Unlock a card until the end of the turn. Replace the rest in any order.
If Beren the Steward considered the Stone at all... he probably thought that it could be in no safer hands than those of the head of the Council...
H3 C 89

• Curunir’s Staff (Free Peoples)
Artifact • Staff
Vit: +1
Bearer must be Curunir.
Skirmish: Exert Curunir twice to reveal the top card of your draw deck. Make a minion skirmishing him strength -X where X is the twilight cost of the card revealed.
Saruman is said (by Gandalf himself) to have been the chief of the Istari...
H3 R 83

Fine. There is something to SoP’s suggestion but exerting once is too strong, exerting twice is too much. Shame u cant exert 1.5 times.

• Seeing Stone of Orthanc, Focus of Sight (Free Peoples)
Artifact • Palantir
Res: -1
Bearer must be Curunir.
Maneuver: Add a burden to reveal the top 3 cards of your draw deck. Then you may discard a Free Peoples card revealed to Unlock a card until the end of the turn. Replace the rest in any order.
If Beren the Steward considered the Stone at all... he probably thought that it could be in no safer hands than those of the head of the Council...
H3 C 89

Wow thats really good. Even if you choose not to discard a card you still get to organise the top 3 cards? Id say you only get to organise them if you use the ability otherwise replace them as found.

Thranduil