I see your point Re: Enquea, he can keep oppo. from playing more companions but he is also a decent Nazgul even without his ability enabled (11str for 6 twilight and 4 health). And having him there keeps the oppo. honest regarding burdens, he cannot keep stacking burdens up. I honestly think 2 enquea is worth it. Only one I'd swap him out for is another Attea to overwhelm. Unless playtesting shows he is not effective I think I'll stick with two:-)
Re Return to it's master: I think the most effective way to play return to it's master in this deck is the same way as
blade tip. Have one in there to scare the opponent. Chances are it won't come into play but it will make the opponent think hard over every decision to exert/put on the ring etc. Even though I wanted it badly to work I think most people will sense danger and hesitate to put on the ring untill the last minute, and in those situations I've usually won anyways as his fellowship is beat to #$&*@!.
Re Reach vs
One of you must do this: Here is how I see it,
One of you must do this works in a way where you must exert if you have alot of companions and if you have few then few needs to exert. The rate of exertions equals or is smaller than companions at all times. Reach has a flat rate of two nomatter what so will hurt even small or one race fellowships. I think a balance of 2-2 is good so you can hurt those who play all races and you can hurt a hobbit deck or elven archers should you meet one. Should one underperform you can always change the balance or see if you find another card that piles on wounds (like
greed?).
Loosing exertion cards for minions seem difficult considering the twilight limitation, but could be worth loosing two cards for
Tower of orthanc which I think will work great. I also had
Can you protect me from yourself? In an early version of the deck when I ran Nelya (to pot. add burdens) and since I run prancing pony + no Twilight cost or exertion required, will find room for it once again now that Nelya is back and will work great with
Tower of OrthancWreathed in shadow I think won't make it as archer fellowships are really rare and exertion to wound is my biggest enemy in archer phases, some prevent wound card would be better, but even those I doubt I'd have the twilight.
I'll think about
Orthanc Berserker, if I add
Can you protect me from yourself? or other cards that add burdens he will prob do really well although his exertion requirement kind of crashes with the other exertion cards. He does however work well with
Tower of Orthanc. I think I'll try to find room for a couple of copies.
Now, with all these changes where cards require burdens, should I try to add burden-adding cards or will that make the damage dealing part of the deck too weak? If I should what cards? Most spot twilight Nazgul's..
*edit*
Removed one captain and added
Orthanc Berserker, could not make room for any more changes without sacrificing
Return to its master so decided to split the deck in two different versions. Main version still has two reaches and a
return to its master. The alternative version has no reach and no return but another assassin instead of the 2nd enquea and
can you protect me from yourself instead of return and 2x
tower of orthanc instead of reach x2.
Main version I'll try to keep focusing on not only doing beatdown but also fun combinations while alternative version can evolve into whatever seems best. At the moment the alt. version looks like it could try to make something work with cards targeting exhausted minions. We got the berserker and the
Tower of orthanc plus
can you protect me from yourself which exhausts Aragorn. On top of that a pretty heavy beatdown shadowside with cards that exhert.
