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Thranduil |
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:22 am |
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As a reminder, this is part of the third of 3 sets:
H1 - The Hobbit (300 cards, 110C 100U 90R)
H2 - The Battle of the Five Armies (200 cards, 70C 70U 60R)
H3 - The White Council (200 cards, 70C 70U 60R)
And it’s more or less complete, I just need the approval of the talented DCers of the cobracards forum!
Here is a (very brief) summary of the block mechanics featured in the first set:
Terror X (Each time this character is assigned to skirmish an opponent’s character, they may make that opponent exert X of their characters.)
Winged (This character can only take 1 wound per phase, regardless of its source.)
Locked - (A card that is Locked has blank game text, unless it is Unlocked. An ability or keyword that is Locked is nonexistent unless it is Unlocked.)
Unlocked - (A card can only be Unlocked if a card allows it to be. A card with no Locked text cannot be Unlocked.)
A seriously detailed description of the last two can be found at this link: http://lotrtcgdb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=4434 (below the cards)
There are also a couple more that feature in this set that weren’t in the last, but I’ll get onto them later.
Here’s the culture break down, and clicking on finished cultures will take you to their card lists.
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- 33
- 1
- 4
- 21
- 16
- 12
- 50
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• Azog, Orc Chieftain
Minion • Orc
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 4
Fierce.
Azog’s twilight cost is -1 for each Orc with 3 or more vitality.
Each Orc is strength +1 for each vitality they have.
... he was a great Orc with a huge iron-clad head, and yet agile and strong.
H3 R 90
Conflagration
Event • Skirmish
Make an Orc not assigned to a skirmish gain fierce, damage +1, terror 1 and ambush until the regroup phase.
... out of the gates poured a multitude of Orcs...
H3 R 91
Desecration
Event • Skirmish
Spot 2 Orcs and discard a card from hand to discard a card borne by a companion skirmishing one of those minions.
Then Nar turned the head and saw branded on the brow in Dwarfrunes so that he could read it the name AZOG.
H3 R 92
• Full of Guile
Condition • Support Area
Bearer is enduring.
Skirmish: Remove to transfer this condition from your support area to a unique Orc.
Each time bearer wins a skirmish, you may transfer this condition to your support area or another unique Orc.
’But if his family wish to know who is now king here, the name is written on his face. I wrote it! I killed him! I am the master!’
H3 C 93
• Gates of Moria
Artifact • Support Area
Skirmish: Discard an minion to add (or if they are skirmishing).
Skirmish: Remove to Lock all keywords on a companion skirmishing an Orc until the regroup phase.
When Thror came to Moria, the Gate was open...
H3 R 94
• Golfimbul, Orkish King
Minion • Orc
Str: 11
Vit: 4
Sit: 4
To play, spot an Orc.
Golfimbul is damage +1 and fierce for each site stacked on him.
Maneuver: Remove to transfer a site from a condition to Golfimbul.
[His head] sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.
H3 R 95
• Host of Dol Guldur
Minion • Orc
Str: 15
Vit: 3
Sit: 4
When you play this minion, you may spot an or minion to stack a random site from the Free Peoples player’s adventure deck here.
Skirmish: If this minion is skirmishing, discard a site stacked on it and exert it to add a burden.
Three times Lorien had been assailed from Dol Guldur...
H3 U 96
• Host of Gundabad
Minion • Orc
Str: 15
Vit: 3
Sit: 4
When you play this minion, you may spot an Orc to stack a site from your adventure deck here.
Maneuver: Discard a mountain site stacked here to add and draw a card.
Both sides were pitiless, and there was death and cruel deeds by dark and by light.
H3 C 97
• Host of Mount Gram
Minion • Orc
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 4
When you play this minion, you may spot an Orc to replace a site on the site path with a site from your adventure deck and stack the replaced site on this minion.
Skirmish: Discard a site stacked here to Lock a companion this minion is skirmishing until the end of the regroup phase.
H3 U 98
• Host of the Misty Mountains
Minion • Orc
Str: 14
Vit: 4
Sit: 4
This minion’s twilight cost is -1 for each site stacked on an minion.
This minion’s twilight cost is -1 for each condition borne by a companion.
But a great host of foes was arrayed on the slopes above them...
H3 R 99
• Host of the Underdeeps
Minion • Orc
Str: 14
Vit: 3
Sit: 4
When you play this minion, you may spot an Orc to stack a site from your adventure deck here.
Shadow: Discard an underground site stacked here to play an Orc from your discard pile.
At last all the Orcs that fled before them were gathered in Moria...
H3 C 100
Infuriation
Event • Skirmish
Spot X minions assigned to a skirmish to add [X]. Then, the Free Peoples player chooses one of those minions. You may discard that minion to add .
’If beggars will not wait at the door, but sneak in to try thieving, that is what we do to them.’
H3 C 101
Moria Fighter
Minion • Orc
Str: 12
Vit: 1
Sit: 4
To play, discard 2 cards from hand.
Each time this minion wins a skirmish, you may spot another minion to draw a card.
… and they outnumbered their enemies…
H3 U 102
Moria Legionnaire
Minion • Orc
Str: 4
Vit: 1
Sit: 4
While you can spot 3 minions, this minion is strength +1 for each card in your hand.
… the Orcs did not waver…
H3 C 103
Moria Watcher
Minion • Orc
Str: 10
Vit: 2
Sit: 4
To play, spot an minion.
At the start of each skirmish involving this minion, you may transfer a stacked site to it.
… and they had the higher ground.
H3 U 104
Retaliation
Event • Response
If an minion loses a skirmish, you may choose the next skirmish to be resolved (except for a skirmish involving the Ring-bearer).
... it was a dark day of winter without sun...
H3 R 105
Soldier of Dol Guldur
Minion • Orc
Str: 5
Vit: 1
Sit: 4
While you can spot 2 minions, this minion is strength +1 for each burden you can spot.
... grievous harm was done to the fair woods...
H3 C 107
• The Underdeep
Condition • Support Area
At the start of the maneuver phase, the Free Peoples player may exert a companion to Unlock this condition until the regroup phase.
Each minion is strength +1 (or +2 if that minion is an Orc).
Locked: At the start of each phase, each minion is Locked until the end of that phase.
H3 R 108
Warrior of Dol Guldur
Minion • Orc
Str: 12
Vit: 2
Sit: 4
To play, remove a burden.
Each time this minion wins a skirmish, you may spot a minion to add a burden.
’... [I] secretly explored his ways, and found thus that our fears were true...’
H3 C 109
Watchman of Dol Guldur
Minion • Orc
Str: 10
Vit: 2
Sit: 4
To play, spot a minion.
At that start of each skirmish involving this minion, you may transfer a Shadow card borne by a companion to an eligible character skirmishing this minion.
’... many years ago I myself dared to pass the doors of the Necromancer in Dol Guldur...’
H3 U 110
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:12 am |
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Thranduil wrote:
• Dain Ironfoot, Son of Nain
Companion • Dwarf
Str: 6
Vit: 3
Res: 7
To play, spot a Dwarf.
At the start of each skirmish involving Dain Ironfoot and a minion, you may exert him and spot 5 threats to remove all threats and discard that minion.
Up the steps after him leaped a Dwarf with a red axe... Right before the doors he caught Azog, and there he slew him, and hewed off his head.
H3 R 4
Cut "and a minion" and phrase it discard a minion in that skirmish.
I see how ur trying to balance it by making his one ability limited use but powerful but i still feel its honestly too powerful. Using a good dwarf card or 2 that adds threats you could easily do this every turn.
• Azog, Orc Chieftain
Minion • Orc
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 4
Fierce.
Azog’s twilight cost is -1 for each Orc with 3 or more vitality.
Each Orc is strength +1 for each vitality they have.
... he was a great Orc with a huge iron-clad head, and yet agile and strong.
H3 R 90
Interesting.
• Gates of Moria
Artifact • Support Area
Skirmish: Discard an minion to add (or if they are skirmishing).
Skirmish: Remove to, until the regroup phase, Lock all keywords on a companion skirmishing an Orc.
When Thror came to Moria, the Gate was open...
H3 R 94
Reword it "Remove to Lock all keywords on a companion skirmishing an Orc, , until the regroup phase." Otherwise its fine.
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NBarden |
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:23 am |
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Thranduil wrote: • Dain Ironfoot, Son of Nain
Companion • Dwarf
Str: 6
Vit: 3
Res: 7
To play, spot a Dwarf.
At the start of each skirmish involving Dain Ironfoot and a minion, you may exert him and spot 5 threats to remove all threats and discard that minion.
Up the steps after him leaped a Dwarf with a red axe... Right before the doors he caught Azog, and there he slew him, and hewed off his head.
H3 R 4
Exert twice, IMO.
Talk of the Devil (well, Azog anyway):
• Azog, Orc Chieftain
Minion • Orc
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 4
Fierce.
Azog’s twilight cost is -1 for each Orc with 3 or more vitality.
Each Orc is strength +1 for each vitality they have.
... he was a great Orc with a huge iron-clad head, and yet agile and strong.
H3 R 90
Love it.
And part of the artifact frenzy of this set:
• Gates of Moria
Artifact • Support Area
Skirmish: Discard an minion to add (or if they are skirmishing).
Skirmish: Remove to, until the regroup phase, Lock all keywords on a companion skirmishing an Orc.
When Thror came to Moria, the Gate was open...
H3 R 94
If they are in a skirmish. I’m not sure I like this, the combo has to much potential to get broken, unless this card gets locked...
Your phraseology is weird. It should be "remove to lock all keywords on a companion skirmishing an Orc until the regroup phase."
And more on the Orcs next time.
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DáinIronfoot |
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:52 pm |
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Thranduil wrote: • Dain Ironfoot, Son of Nain
Companion • Dwarf
Str: 6
Vit: 3
Res: 7
To play, spot a Dwarf.
At the start of each skirmish involving Dain Ironfoot and a minion, you may exert him and spot 5 threats to remove all threats and discard that minion.
Up the steps after him leaped a Dwarf with a red axe... Right before the doors he caught Azog, and there he slew him, and hewed off his head.
H3 R 4
Spell it right! The "a" very clearly should be "á". GRAR!!
The "and a minion" isn’t needed. As much as I like the ability, it needs another cost. Either exert him twice or perhaps reduce the number of threats removed.
Thranduil wrote: • Azog, Orc Chieftain
Minion • Orc
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 4
Fierce.
Azog’s twilight cost is -1 for each Orc with 3 or more vitality.
Each Orc is strength +1 for each vitality they have.
... he was a great Orc with a huge iron-clad head, and yet agile and strong.
H3 R 90
Maybe make his cost -1 for each Orc with 2 or less vitality. Makes for an interesting choice for the Shadow player.
Thranduil wrote: • Gates of Moria
Artifact • Support Area
Skirmish: Discard an minion to add (or if they are skirmishing).
Skirmish: Remove to Lock all keywords on a companion skirmishing an Orc until the regroup phase.
When Thror came to Moria, the Gate was open...
H3 R 94
Go with the wording the others recommended, and then it’s fine. |
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:24 pm |
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Thranduil wrote:
• Dain Ironfoot, Son of Nain
Companion • Dwarf
Str: 6
Vit: 3
Res: 7
To play, spot a Dwarf.
At the start of each skirmish involving Dain Ironfoot and a minion, you may exert him and spot 5 threats to remove all threats and discard that minion.
Up the steps after him leaped a Dwarf with a red axe... Right before the doors he caught Azog, and there he slew him, and hewed off his head.
H3 R 4
should have
[b]Maneuver make 2 very good DC’s. Gain a GP for each companion with DC reviewer you can spot
cool! so this reflects how he is younger right now? that ability is killer. give shadow a way to prevent...oh wait removing threats is bad for your dwarves isn’t it? I am confoosed[/b]
Talk of the Devil (well, Azog anyway):
• Azog, Orc Chieftain
Minion • Orc
Str: 12
Vit: 4
Sit: 4
Fierce.
Azog’s twilight cost is -1 for each Orc with 3 or more vitality.
Each Orc is strength +1 for each vitality they have.
... he was a great Orc with a huge iron-clad head, and yet agile and strong.
H3 R 90
cool! you could cut cost to 7 IMSO
And part of the artifact frenzy of this set:
• Gates of Moria
Artifact • Support Area
Skirmish: Discard an minion to add (or if they are skirmishing).
Skirmish: Remove to Lock all keywords on a companion skirmishing an Orc until the regroup phase.
When Thror came to Moria, the Gate was open...
H3 R 94
cut cost to 1 |
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:42 pm |
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DáinIronfoot wrote: Spell it right! The "a" very clearly should be "á". GRAR!!
I’m well aware of this, but then I have to go into Word, make the right symbol, then paste it into Firefox whenever I want to use it, so I normally can’t be bothered. You’ll notice I try to do it on Thror, Thrain etc. (just not in this particular post )
DáinIronfoot wrote: The "and a minion" isn’t needed. As much as I like the ability, it needs another cost. Either exert him twice or perhaps reduce the number of threats removed.
Changed for both.
DáinIronfoot wrote: Maybe make his cost -1 for each Orc with 2 or less vitality. Makes for an interesting choice for the Shadow player.
That is very interesting, but unfortunately it defeats its own purpose. All that would happen that way is you play loads of low vitality minions, play Azog, then load them up with mounts and vitality adders from the second set, instead of the other way around. I think I’d prefer to make the Shadow player have to discard the cards from hand first (in order to play the mounts).
NBarden wrote: Oh yeah, missed that. What else would he be skirmishing? A flying duck? Or...
THRAN’S GONNA COME OUT WITH SOME WAY TO TURN COMPANIONS AGAINST EACH OTHER!
Wow, 2 fantastic ideas there. Wait till I bring up some companions that skirmish other companions and flying ducks...
sickofpalantirs wrote: cool! so this reflects how he is younger right now?
Yes. In fact, there are 2 versions of him in this block, both of which with different stats, and neither the same as Decipher’s one, Son of Nain is very young, King Under the Mountain is very old, and Lord of the Iron Hills is in his prime.
sickofpalantirs wrote: that ability is killer. give shadow a way to prevent...oh wait removing threats is bad for your dwarves isn’t it? I am confoosed
Well, they like to have a lot of threats, but they also need to add them to use their events, so it’s a bit of a trade-off.
Wow, that was a lot of comments!
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:58 pm |
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Now for some funky events.
You may remember that the culture from the Battle of Five Armies would draw loads of cards and add loads of twilight for the skirmish phase. There was one card in particular that took advantage of it, which I’m going to post here for convenience:
The Black Tide
Event • Skirmish
Spot 5 minions and discard 3 cards from hand to place an unbound companion skirmishing one of those minions in the dead pile.
Soon the attackers... were forced into a great ring... hemmed all about with goblins and wolves...
H2 R 98
Well, here are some more on a similar theme which tie in nicely to the Gates of Moria:
Conflagration
Event • Skirmish
Make an Orc not assigned to a skirmish gain fierce, damage +1, terror 1 and ambush until the regroup phase.
... out of the gates poured a multitude of Orcs...
H3 R 91
Desecration
Event • Skirmish
Spot 2 Orcs and discard a card from hand to discard a card borne by a companion skirmishing one of those minions.
Then Nar turned the head and saw branded on the brow in Dwarfrunes so that he could read it the name AZOG.
H3 R 92
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Last edited by Thranduil on Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:23 pm; edited 1 time in total'We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.'
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:13 pm |
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Thranduil wrote: Now for some funky events.
I can tell I’m gonna like this.
Quote: You may remember that the culture from the Battle of Five Armies would draw loads of cards and add loads of twilight for the skirmish phase. There was one card in particular that took advantage of it, which I’m going to post here for convenience:
The Black Tide
Event • Skirmish
Spot 5 minions and discard 3 cards from hand to place an unbound companion skirmishing one of those minions in the dead pile.
Soon the attackers... were forced into a great ring... hemmed all about with goblins and wolves...
H2 R 98
I remember reviewing that! Twilight adding and card drawing, yay orcs! I also remember mentioning that you’d have to have some recursion or drawing to get this event, 3 cards, and 5 minions. Anyway, still good.
Quote: Conflagration
Event • Skirmish
Make an Orc not assigned to a skirmish gain fierce, damage +1, terror 1 and ambush until the regroup phase.
... out of the gates poured a multitude of Orcs...
H3 R 91
Fantastic! for a funny card.
Quote: Desecration
Event • Skirmish
Spot 2 Orcs and discard a card from hand to discard a card borne by a companion skirmishing one of those minions.
Then Nar turned the head and saw branded on the brow in Dwarfrunes so that he could read it the name AZOG.
H3 R 92
Maybe could cost a little less, but maybe it’s balanced since Orcs don’t really have possession removal... |
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Both are fine, methinks. |
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