Just bearer - to apply to all their cards, it would have to say so (like Up My Sleeve in my other DC thread). Why, do you think it’s not good enough then?

I never said it wasnt good enough. Was just wondering.

I Unlocked the ability on the Necklace. Good?

Better.


Ancient Axe
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Str: +2
Res: +1
Bearer must be a Dwarf.
If bearer is Ring-bound and they do not bear another artifact, discard this card from play.
Each time bearer wins a skirmish, you may exert him to remove a burden.
... a silver-hefted axe in a belt crusted with scarlet stones.
H3 C 1

Dude get rid of the dwarf burden removal right away. Each culture has a balance, you cant make every race a jack of all trades it ruins the meta. Dwarves dont have it and it doesnt make sense to give them burden removal. Its like Gandalf having archer. Its plainly wrong.

Bright Helm
Artifact • Helm
Res: +2
Bearer must be a Dwarf or Man.
If bearer is Ring-bound and they do not bear another artifact, discard this card from play.
Each time bearer is assigned to a skirmish, you may Lock him until the end of the regroup phase to remove a burden.
... studded about the brim with white gems...
H3 C 3

Again remove the burden removal from dwarves and men. Neither have it and never should. make it do something else. Threat removal maybe and its better.

Dragon’s Armoury
Event • Fellowship
Spot a unique Dwarf and add a threat to play a artifact from your draw deck.
They wondered if they were still lying there unharmed in the hall below, the spears that were made for the armies of the great King Bladorthin... shields made for warriors long dead... coats of mail gilded and silvered and impenetrable...
H3 U 5

Fine but why not just add more artifacts instead of this card? Make it cost 0 and remove the threat if you keep it otherwise its not worth the deck space.

• Ring of Vengeance, Durin’s Ring
Artifact • Ring
Vit: +1
Bearer must be Durin III, Thror, Thrain or Thorin.
Bearer is damage +1 for each wound on him.
Locked: Response: If a card is about to be discarded (except by a Free Peoples card), discard this artifact to prevent it.
’... it needs gold to breed gold.’
H3 R 21

Sound. fantastic with battle to the last. Or a honed

Thranduil

You just LOVE resistance themed cards, don’t you?

As to the point about burden removal, because they should not be good at it these are the only 2 cards that do it, and very badly at that. However, I felt that, for a resistance strategy to work, they would need some of it, otherwise it just wouldn’t ever been worth it - as soon as you fight the most casual corruption deck, your whole deck falls apart.

Thranduil

Firstly I think it’s an amazing mechanic, and it’s the major theme of Free Peoples cards in the White Council just like corruption is also on the Shadow side.

As to the point about burden removal, because they should not be good at it these are the only 2 cards that do it, and very badly at that. However, I felt that, for a resistance strategy to work, they would need some of it, otherwise it just wouldn’t ever been worth it - as soon as you fight the most casual corruption deck, your whole deck falls apart.

Thranduil

Yes it’s breaking the meta a little, but I broke it in the first set and nobody raised an eyebrow. How is burden removal any different from threat removal, or Men suddenly being good at drawing and cycling cards, or Gandalf suddenly able to discard and replay himself, or your Wraiths that aren’t enduring? Dwarven resistance is a strategy, and it needs the right cards to be viable.

If it makes anyone feel better, however, I have decided to limit it further.

Thranduil

Card drawing is their entire mechanism for your new guys. There are so many cards that rely on you drawing and cycling that any other mechanism in the deck wouldnt be viable.

Gandalf men have never had "difficulty" in drawing cards and it doesnt make them broken.

I’ve taken the liberty of listing below every single Man card that cycles:

Ottar, Man of Laketown
Barliman Butterbur, Red-Faced Lanlord
Librarian, Keeper of Ancient Texts

Thranduil